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| From A Reader: A Look At Antifa's Field Organization |
| 2020-09-06 |
| [American Partisan] Antifa tactical units are organized into 'standard company sturctrure' of up to 20 individual soldiers under the immediate control of a comany commander. While there are 'special units', most notable the 'reconnaissance & coordination' teams of bicyclists, the base of the C&C structure for Antifa is the company. Company commanders are first lieutenants' and may be idenfied in the field by their actions within the group, and frequently by possession of DX SDR units of some form. These 'duplex (send/receive) software defined radio' units will be small, and most probably attached to a smart phone. It is through the SDR's that the encrypted commands are passed to operational units. On arrest, 1st Lieutenants have been observed disarding their identifying equipment as well as destroying their phones.First Lieutenants can also be identified as being the local hub for bicycle traffic. In observations of rioting/looting activity, particularly with long distance videos of qualtity, bicyclists can cleary be seen reporting to 1st Lieutenants & even seeking them out in the mob. For this activity, bicyclists have been noted to employ 'proximate apps' to locate their units & commanders. The Anitfa field orgnaization has up to 4 companies reporting to a 'captain (coordinator)'. Antifa Captians may be identified by common actions & equipment. Captains are 'free floating' within the mob movement, but will always be associated with increased bicycle traffic as well as 'emblems' of authority/command. These emblems include sepcific types & shapes of video camera gear. Antifa soldiers are trained to center on the emblems of both 1st Lieutentant as well as Captains. Some of the Captains have been observed pulling their command together by holding up the long lens video camera overhead while running a pattern of flashes from the light bars. These are swept around the mob & new organization results. Read the whole thing. I'm no expert on these things, but they're clearly not all flailing amateurs with "poor trigger discipline" (a favorite trope of right wing blowhards) |
| Posted by:charger |
| #23 I'm no expert on these things, but they're clearly not all flailing amateurs with "poor trigger discipline" (a favorite trope of right wing blowhards) Underestimate your enemy at your own peril. If it were me, with one of these cohorts, I'd have two video takers, one on each side of the street, with time stamps synchronized and geo-locators in the video. That video could be used for recruiting, studying tactics, propaganda, promotion/demotion, and even hunting down those who distribute unacceptable video using simple triangulation compared to the unacceptable video, such as Fire Walk with Me posted above. I'm quite positive the software exists to create a sort of 3-D map. I do not think it inappropriate to dust of the Olde Combat terminology of, say, Vikings vs. Northumbria. The bicyclists serve as a sort of light cavalry for recon, harassment, and courier. The skateboards serve as a sort of light infantry. Try outrunning a skater on a slight positive slope, nevermind level or negative especially someone who has been doing it long enough to solidify skater muscles (like any other physical activity such as skiing, dancing, distance running, so forth). The Videographers and 'Paramedics' work as maneuver shields and human shields. The Umbrella Corps work as maneuver shields and Small Missile Defense (pepper balls). The Shield Wall works as maneuver screens as well as primary agitators. The Laser Group, I think they call them Light Mages, work as distance missile groups. The whole point comes down to: humiliate your opponent - this is where I comment on the Molotov Dancer. I'm going to guess the dude who got burned was at least a screen and perhaps a human shield and he got burned because the thrower got burned themself and chunked the throw. What this article would suggest is that a fire bombing had to be approved. Looks to me like they think they got a mixture balanced and wanted to try it out. As far as where they are practicing, I heard quite a while ago there are training camps set up for just this purpose. As connected as some individuals are, I don't think it is a stretch that someone owns old property like a dilapidated warehouse for working out the footwork, and those with connection to software for 3D triangulation such as one would find in virtual house tours. The goal of this phase, humiliations, has a number of effects especially considering how quickly the Trump Hates Troops bulllll-shit was spread: keep people at home, demoralize the active participants, and in the Grande view of things eroding international support or even worse, encourage international dealers to co-opt or even ally themselves to 'The Cause'. Consider the UN, and then consider 24/7 coverage of a poor protestor shot down because they were lighting a citronella candle. Pallywood. They want dead because blood lubricates the movement. Look at the evidence on mass media, did Dude get killed because of Patriot Prayer, or because Trump caused people to put themselves in the way of Blamtifia? The insurgency handbook, and counter-insurgency handbook, rightly describes that an insurgency cannot exist without a 'safe space' to operate from. Come to your own conclusions, but here is evidence that this is more than unorganized peoples. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2020-09-06 21:11 |
| #22 This could also be a good time for the US to use some intelligence agencies. Too bad we don't have any that work for the US instead of themselves. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2020-09-06 20:41 |
| #21 #20 Also, I think the whole point of this is a: they can train their troops more, and b: they can audition their troops and find out who's good at organizing, who's good enough of a sociopath to not only commit murder, but to sacrifice the well being of others by sending them to go beat on the truck of a bystander trying to drive through the demonstration... Exactly. And there's nothing remotely analogous to this on the Right. Partly because our institutions are wholly owned subsidiaries of the left who promptly crack down when there's the slightest whiff of this stuff from the Right; partly because of the mindless complacency of the "Hurdurrr, we have all the guns, and duh cops are on our side" crowd. |
| Posted by: charger 2020-09-06 19:16 |
| #20 Also, I think the whole point of this is a: they can train their troops more, and b: they can audition their troops and find out who's good at organizing, who's good enough of a sociopath to not only commit murder, but to sacrifice the well being of others by sending them to go beat on the truck of a bystander trying to drive through the demonstration... |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2020-09-06 17:54 |
| #19 So where were they practicing? Anyone taking pictures? |
| Posted by: gorb 2020-09-06 17:21 |
| #18 -shhhhh- Last go round, there was a demonstration in Dallas IIRC. Pedestrian fences had been chain linked and locked together to form a boundary for their activity area if you will. Nothing short of a testudo formation assaulted the pedestrian fence with bolt cutters in order to defeat the fence and I guess charge the counter demonstration. Police noticed this and countered; the point is that people don't just get into a formation of that sort and not trip over each other without a lot of practice. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2020-09-06 16:23 |
| #17 And those guys waving signal lights around, supposedly signaling the rest? There's a reason you don't salute in a combat zone. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2020-09-06 13:51 |
| #16 Polonium laced water in their snack vans would be easier to trace it seems to me. |
| Posted by: gorb 2020-09-06 13:37 |
| #15 Make sure you read the full article and the observations about a UA and tracking markers |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2020-09-06 12:44 |
| #14 The more they act like a military force, the easier it will be to treat them like un-uniformed irregulars. I don't think a black hoodie with an antifa patch is going to count as an official uniform deserving of the considerations shown to opposing regular soldiers. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-09-06 10:33 |
| #13 They would appear to be determined to have a cultural revolution. If the President wins it will be violent and bad. If Grampy badfinger wins it will be geometrically worse, 'every man for himself' worse. |
| Posted by: Cesare 2020-09-06 10:21 |
| #12 Re #9. Very interesting. Thanks! The construction of the lab was a joint agreement between the French and the Chinese and, according to a recent report by France’s Le Figaro newspaper, came at the objection of French intelligence officials. “The move came despite strong opposition from French diplomatic and security advisers, who argued that the Chinese reputation for poor bio-security could lead to a catastrophic leak,” The Daily Mail reported, citing Le Figaro. “They also warned that Paris could lose control of the project, and even suggested that Beijing could harness the technology to make biowarfare weapons. Eleven years later, as the laboratory prepared to open, the French architects of the project complained that they had, as feared, been ousted by the Chinese communist government.” |
| Posted by: Angeart Javiper6312 2020-09-06 09:57 |
| #11 Nice. Now the sharpshooters have something to target... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2020-09-06 09:29 |
| #10 Had to open the link in Tor. My anti-malware (or ISP) is blocking it. Tor's relays worked around that. Bobby is correct. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2020-09-06 09:17 |
| #9 Overthrow governance and create international panic? Lets have a look at what is currently NOT working, and when the warnings may have initially surfaced. (from the memory hole). French Intel Officials Warned In 2004 Building Wuhan Lab Could Lead To ‘Catastrophic Leak,’ Report Says |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2020-09-06 08:43 |
| #8 Alinsky + Wild Bill Donovan + Pravda-style presscorps spreading disinformation... these clowns could get serious and seriously dangerous in a hurry |
| Posted by: Victor Emmanuel Hitler1096 2020-09-06 08:19 |
| #7 Ref #1 & #6: Not far-fetched at all to imagine the Resustance becoming a full-on Contra-style resistance op similar to what CIA has directed, trained and funded repeatedly for over 60 years around the Third World - which is how these bastids view the US today It might be instructive to remember who, among all Federal employees (active and retired) came out vehemently against the Orange Man from the very onset. Quiet now, with this new phase underway, names like Brennan, Clapper, Hayden, Panetta, Webster and others fed the mainstream media headlines daily. With the cities in turmoil, where are the Brennan, Clapper, Hayden voices now? Where the fok are they ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2020-09-06 08:10 |
| #6 Their tactics will evolve. Also, based on what we're seeing in the recent attempt to politicize the military by the Dems and their press auxiliary force, don't be surprised if these characters start reaching out to the never-Trump ex-military and ex-CIA spooks for tactical advice. Maybe active training too. Not far-fetched at all to imagine the Resustance becoming a full-on Contra-style resistance op similar to what CIA has directed, trained and funded repeatedly for over 60 years around the Third World - which is how these bastids view the US today |
| Posted by: Ometer Ebbavising7234 2020-09-06 07:57 |
| #5 RTWT, especially the last paragraph. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2020-09-06 07:50 |
| #4 Comments turned off.... therefore majority of comments not support their looter narrative. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2020-09-06 06:51 |
| #3 The forces of General Cornwallis At drill and maneuver were flawless. "I also had trenches!" "While we had the French." "Yes, and that was a wonderful solace..." "To not have been licked by us lawless." "So, lucky we both you weren't Gaul-less." |
| Posted by: Betty Jens7100 2020-09-06 04:33 |
| #2 Couple of weeks ago one of their "commanders" was proud of how well they formed a shield wall. There's no sign they can actually maneuver while so formed, plenty of evidence their formations shatter easily. And, well, that formation went out with the advent of gunpowder. They are practiced in facing off against restrained riot cops and outnumbering isolated opponents. Beyond that? Well, Cornwallis had a force that could make pretty formations and even maneuver... |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2020-09-06 03:17 |
| #1 could they be operating in conjunction with the"Deep State" CIA? |
| Posted by: 746 2020-09-06 00:44 |