The article is "Socialist ‘Red Rabbits’ are training for national uprising against cops" and it relates:
As its national influence has risen, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) has simultaneously grown more extreme. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the group's "Red Rabbits" initiative.
The Red Rabbits Security Commission, a subgroup within the DSA focused on "community defense" efforts, is, according to its authorizing resolution, preparing for a "national uprising against federal agents and police brutality."
In practice, that means training cadres in tactics like armed and unarmed self-defense, blocking intersections, and fighting "fascists" with umbrellas.
A recent panel offered an unprecedented window into what the project looks like. Organizers from Minnesota, Oklahoma City, Philadelphia, Tucson, Austin, and Portland compared notes.
As the discussion made clear, the DSA is trying to construct a nationwide security apparatus to support its expanding role in street protests and direct-action organizing. And in so doing, it fears drawing the attention of the Internal Revenue Service — likely with good reason.
If Anonymous Conservative were to read this, he would probably laugh. You see, in his book The Evolutionary Psychology Behind Politics, he explains how the differences between conservatives and liberals can be explains by reference to evolutionary psychology: essentially, that liberals are what are termed r-select while conservatives are what are termed K-select. He used the short hand of "rabbits" to describe liberals and "wolves" to describe conservatives.
The article explains that "[o]rganizers chose the deliberately innocuous name as a nod to the novel 'Watership Down,' in which anthropomorphized rabbits are outnumbered and beset by enemies." But I have to wonder if, subconsciously, the name was selected because they recognize that they are like rabbits: promiscuous, generally pacifistic and anti-competitive, not invested in raising their children, lacking in-group loyalty, and existing only to consume public resources.
This is not to downplay the danger. This group is training and acting as the tip of the spear when it comes to disruption and street protests. Some of their training involves firearms and hand-to-hand combat. Even rabbits can bite.
These aren't UK cops, they shoot back.
ReplyDeleteThe article says that they are preparing for taking on police, but that generally isn't the problem for these groups--the leftist mayors and governors will make sure the police don't bother the protestors. Where the issue comes up is if a private citizen tries to defend him or herself. The Leftists hate that, which is why the Leftist prosecutors expend so much effort to prosecute civilian defenders.
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