Authors: George Parry
The Views of the Author are not necessarily the Views of Enigmose
"Terrorism is a form of propaganda, a political weapon that can be used to instill fear, horror and indignation, to destroy and sap out the will of the people. Through fear and terror one can demand obedience and blind submission…. Terror is a political weapon, and its purpose will force capitulation." — Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf.
The first step in dismantling and defeating any criminal or terrorist organization is to identify its participants. In the early 1970s, when the U.S. Justice Department’s Organized Crime and Racketeering Section ramped up operations against what we used to call “La Cosa Nostra” (LCN), we worked closely with the FBI, Secret Service, ATF, IRS, and, in many instances, local and state police to identify the members of the various Mafia families in cities throughout the country. Once our targets were identified, we used confidential informants, physical surveillances, search warrants, electronic surveillance, and grand juries to assemble information about them, which intelligence analysts then indexed and cross-referenced. We wanted to know more about them than they knew about themselves, with the ultimate goal of rolling them up wholesale. It took a while, but, to a great extent, it worked.
I had the privilege of working with many talented, intelligent, and street-smart investigators. One of them was an FBI agent who had spent 18 years doing counterintelligence in New York City against the GRU (Soviet Military Intelligence). When he began working LCN cases, he marveled at how disorganized, amateurish, and just plain dumb the mob guys were. He considered LCN to be “easy meat,” and, compared to his old Soviet adversaries, he was right.
The main reason the mob guys were such low-hanging fruit was that, until federal law enforcement started after them, they had had no real opposition. They had been accustomed to running their criminal enterprises in cities where underfunded and understaffed police and prosecutors had neither the resources nor the organizational will to deal with them. This had led LCN to become sloppy, and, despite their code of omertà and prolific use of violence, they left many openings and weak points that we could and did exploit.
Which brings us to the antics of Antifa’s play thugs and the shakedown artists of Black Lives Matter who have set up shop in welcoming progressive Democrat-run cities across the country. For almost two months we have been treated to the spectacle of these pretend storm troopers spouting neo-Marxist gibberish as they run riot without any serious pushback by the local authorities.
For example, during the recent riots here in the People’s Republic of Philadelphia, Mayor Jim Kenney and District Attorney Larry Krasner (D-Soros) undercut the efforts of the Philadelphia police to restore order even as rampaging “peaceful demonstrators” looted and destroyed large swaths of the city. Instead of effectively deploying Philadelphia’s 9,000-plus police officers to aggressively confront the rioters, Philadelphia officialdom — with the active approval and encouragement of local media — opted for a kid-glove response. In this regard, with great public fanfare, Mayor Kenney rescinded police citations issued to 756 “protestors” for disorderly conduct, violating curfew, and failure to disperse.
And those arrested for more serious crimes now face prosecution by the once-formidable but now ridiculous District Attorney’s Office under the leadership of Larry Krasner. Before he became District Attorney, Krasner sued the Philadelphia Police Department over 75 times for civil rights violations. He was elected with the substantial financial backing of billionaire George Soros. Since taking office, Krasner has earned the admiration and goodwill of Philadelphia’s ordinary, run-of-the-mill, criminals who have affectionately dubbed him “Uncle Larry,” as in “Go ahead and arrest me, Officer. Once I call my Uncle Larry, I’ll be out before you can finish the paperwork.”
In other words, as in places such as Portland and Seattle, the rioters had nothing to fear here in the City of Brotherly Love, until, that is, the federal government stepped up to do the job that the locals had refused to do.
It started when the FBI arrested the woman pictured below petitioning the government for redress of grievances by torching two Philadelphia police cars.
The FBI announced that they tracked her down using social media, which, I am willing to wager, will prove to be an Achilles’ heel for many other millennial radicals. Full Article @ American Spectator
A Tale of Two Arsonists
Among anarchists arrested over the past two months, few have gotten a more vociferous defense from the anti-police left
Both were bailed out, with Rahman's release guaranteed by an Obama-administration alumna who called Rahman her "best friend." The duo have received friendly coverage in the Intercept, CNN, and NPR. All emphasized the young lawyers' sterling credentials, echoing a letter signed by hundreds of NYU alumni in their defense. Compare that with the story of Isaiah Willoughby, a Washington resident now facing federal charges for attempting to burn down a Seattle police station. Read More
