Professional organizers in the 1970s trained me as a teenager to do the stupid protest stuff like vandalism, destroying property, and creating provocations to get stomped and clubbed by National Guardsmen for the news cameras to turn people against the authorities.
We thought it was a fun adventure and enjoyed being part of an edgy "struggle" in what we had been led to believe was a righteous cause. In my case, it was anti-nuclear activism.
Those who knew what they were doing never put themselves in danger. They trained and set up the rest of us as dupes to face the consequences. That was about 80 percent of us.
They used us to create outrage imagery, and to use our shouts and chants to intimidate political figures and the public. They used us to provoke situations that would turn the public against the police and National Guard. We were just all-American high school kids. Harmless. Idealistic. Innocent-looking.
It was all engineered anger. PSYOP against the public and against ourselves.
When I realized that the cause wasn't about the cause, but was about a Communist revolution against our country, I broke ranks and spent the rest of my life fighting them.
I was 16 years old at the time. Luckily, I hadn't gotten involved in any destruction or violence, but had learned enough to infiltrate and disrupt the movement until I was well into my twenties. From that experience, I went on to infiltrate Communist guerrilla front groups, and Soviet international front organizations like the World Peace Council and disrupted their multimillion-dollar operations. This time, for Uncle Sam. Used the enemy's tactics against them.
Most of the rest just chose to remain dupes. That was almost 50 years ago. The Minneapolis insurgency is nothing new. It has been evolving for decades, refined to an art form. What about the 20 percent who were not dupes?
They knew exactly what they were doing. Back then, they had supported Fidel Castro, the Weather Underground, and our Vietcong and North Vietnam Communist enemies.
Many of them are still around. Some remain sharp and militant. Others are the geriatrics you see with their "No Kings" signs, hauling out their grandchildren - or other people's grandchildren - to train them as the fourth or fifth generation of militants. Many are still dupes.
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