Is America in the Early Stages of Armed Insurgency?

[rangerrebew]

Is America in the Early Stages of Armed Insurgency?
One of the world’s leading counterinsurgency experts is alarmed by what he sees.
By Fred Kaplan
Sept 08, 20201:49 PM


David Kilcullen is one of the world’s leading authorities on insurgencies. For decades he has studied them. As an infantry soldier in the Australian army and an adviser to the U.S. Army, he’s fought against them. His latest scholarly work has focused on their role in urban conflicts.

So when Kilcullen says that America is in a state of “incipient insurgency,” it’s worth sitting up, taking notice, and trembling just a little.

The official definition of an insurgency is the “organized use of subversion and violence to seize, nullify, or challenge political control” of an area. An “incipient insurgency” might be happening when “inchoate actions by a range of groups”—followed by organizing, training, acquisition of resources (including arms), and the buildup of public support—lead to “increasingly frequent” incidents of violence, reflecting “improved organization and forethought.”

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/09/america-insurgency-chaos-trump-violence.html

[sneakypete]

Yes.

Everybody on the left knows this because they are the ones pushing it.

Everybody on the right knows this,because historically,this is what the left does. ALWAYS.

The only people who don't know this are the airheads in the mushy-middle,and they will suffer the most.

I SINCERELY hope this doesn't happen,but the left is determined to gain dictatorial power,and that is the only way they can get it.

[GrouchoTex]

The left's language of the right being less than human is done by design.
It is an old tactic.
De-humanize the enemy so you feel less guilty about hurting or killing them.
I'd say yes we are in the early stages of an armed insurgency.
The left wants this, but they need to be careful for what they wish for.

[mountaineer]

From the article:

... By and large, the protesters haven’t been at fault. It’s been the extremists—left and right—who have tagged alongside the protests and counterprotests, exploiting the disorder.

In some cases, the violence has been committed by “individual idiots”—as Kilcullen calls them—such as, most notably, Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old self-appointed vigilante  ...

Obviously, the dangerous people in America (according to Slate) really are not Antifa, BLM or leftists in general - they are peaceful and harm no one -  but conservatives and "right-wingers."

[sneakypete]

From the article: Obviously, the dangerous people in America (according to Slate) really are not Antifa, BLM or leftists in general - they are peaceful and harm no one -  but conservatives and "right-wingers."

@mountaineer

Yeah,after trying to run away didn't work,he had a choice of being beaten to death while lying in the street,or fighting back by shooting his attackers.

What a fool,right?

[Fishrrman]

The subject looked to be "right on the mark", but when I went to the source to read further, it seems "the insurgency" is mostly composed of right-wing radicals (with an appropriate pic to lead off).

The article is 180 degrees skewered from what's really happening out there.

Propaganda from the other side.

Addendum:
Mountaineer -- you got it exactly right!

[andy58-in-nh]

The subject looked to be "right on the mark", but when I went to the source to read further, it seems "the insurgency" is mostly composed of right-wing radicals (with an appropriate pic to lead off).

The article is 180 degrees skewered from what's really happening out there.

Propaganda from the other side.

Addendum:
Mountaineer -- you got it exactly right!

It is de rigueur for Left-wing radicals to accuse others of precisely those things which they themselves are doing.

This tactic has been employed by the Left since the French Revolution because it works - especially when those entrusted to report the news are wholly in the tank for the revolutionaries.

[mountaineer]

It is de rigueur for Left-wing radicals to accuse others of precisely those things which they themselves are doing.

Exactly, and it seems to be all they do. Obama did it, Biden is doing, every lefty politician from Cuomo to Wolf to Pelosi is doing it. If you want to know exactly what the left is up to, all you have to do is see what they've most recently accused conservatives/Republicans/Trump of doing.

[libertybele]

Exactly, and it seems to be all they do. Obama did it, Biden is doing, every lefty politician from Cuomo to Wolf to Pelosi is doing it. If you want to know exactly what the left is up to, all you have to do is see what they've most recently accused conservatives/Republicans/Trump of doing.

That's a given and is how the bat crap crazy leftist mental midgets roll.

[sneakypete]

The subject looked to be "right on the mark", but when I went to the source to read further, it seems "the insurgency" is mostly composed of right-wing radicals (with an appropriate pic to lead off).

The article is 180 degrees skewered from what's really happening out there.

Propaganda from the other side.

Addendum:
Mountaineer -- you got it exactly right!

@Fishrrman   @mountaineer

So what? It is ALWAYS the radicals at the forefront of any movement. They are the ones that stir the Pelosi and get calmer people to notice that something is wrong,and something needs to be done to correct it.

[Smokin Joe]

@Fishrrman   @mountaineer

So what? It is ALWAYS the radicals at the forefront of any movement. They are the ones that stir the Pelosi and get calmer people to notice that something is wrong,and something needs to be done to correct it.

"Radical" is a statistical position in a population that will generally ignore what is happening until it is their vehicle/house/person in flames. The key is to wait to act until the base of support is far larger than the population of people actually willing to step up and do something about it. The problem is that the media who are part of the problem need to either be separated from the miscreants or dealt with as active participants. For the latter to happen, live streaming might not be wise thing to have going on.