Rich Democrat Donors Are Financing a Terror Campaign Against Tesla and American Citizens Generally -- Will We Fight Them? Or Will We Let Them All Go Free As We Did With Barack Obama's Pals in the Weather Underground?

Yesterday I mentioned the classic terrorist arrangement, whereby a terror group works hand-in-hand with a "political wing." The political wing allegedly does not conduct terror attacks -- it's a group of people with relatively clean records.

But the "political wing," while claiming to be distinct from their terrorist partners, is always there to negotiate on behalf of the terrorists, making demands in exchange for peace. The terrorist wing provides the Stick, the political wing is there to collect the Carrots.

Black September, the Palestinian terror group behind the Olympics massacre, had a front group called the PLO you might have heard of. The Irish Republican Army had the supposedly non-violent Sinn Fein.

One side of the organization wears black hats and sets off bombs and fires. The other side wears white hats -- or gray hats, at least -- and negotiates to make the bombs and fires stop.

Christopher Rufo and my friend David Reaboi have written about the exact same arrangement in today's left.

The terrorists pretend to be separate from the "activists" and political/donor network of the Democrat Party.

In fact, they're just two claws of the same beast.

How "Tesla Takedown" Activists Fool the Public

The campaign against Elon Musk's company is hardly a grassroots movement.

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A closer look suggests that Tesla is the latest target of an activist and organizing ecosystem that the Left has built over decades. That infrastructure manufactures, amplifies, and strategically uses protests and "direct actions" to force concessions or policy change. These direct actions range from nonviolent (sit-ins or flash mobs) to violent (arson, harassment, or even assassination), all meant to focus attention through the drama of real-world confrontation. The goal is to bypass the normal channels of democratic decision-making, obtaining desired ends through minoritarian pressure campaigns.

It would be impossible, however, to find a single person or entity directing both the protests and the violence. Rather, the two are linked by the concept of "diversity of tactics," an activist doctrine that holds that a movement should welcome the use of coercion methods as part of the whole range of the radicalization spectrum--from conventional, nonviolent marches to riots, property destruction, and violence--within their strategic program.

Diversity of tactics encourages activists to take advantage of a clever ruse: the public-facing flank of the movement presents the image of nonviolent resistance, while the behind-the-scenes infrastructure supports and occasionally engages in violence. One creates strategic opportunities for the other, with any connection hidden behind a veil of plausible deniability.

All organizations should be required to absolutely repudiate "diversity of tactics," which is just a codword for "approval of violence by our armed wing." For "non-profits," this can be done by simply refusing to grant them their tax exemption unless they renounce this support of terrorism.

Let's examine diversity of tactics at work.

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[T]he footprint of professional activists, whom Winter admitted having "reached out to," was evident from the start. Each of the nationwide Tesla Takedown protests were scheduled and posted at The Action Network, a progressive for-profit company that provides online tools for left-wing organizing. It promises its customers the tools "to help you capture a moment, rally supporters to your cause, and sustain relationships with activists." The pricing for these services--which include databases and sign-up forms like the ones Winter described--can run more than $4,000 per month.

The Disruption Project, a Philadelphia-based far-left organizing group, was initially identified as a host or co-sponsor of all the Tesla Takedown's protests at the Action Network's event listings. The Project has since been scrubbed from the Action Network's site, but it still shares an SMS "short code" with Tesla Takedown--a sign of ongoing linkage.

The Disruption Project's founder is Jeff Ordower, a longtime activist whose background runs the gamut of professional left-wing activism....

Diversity of tactics creates a three-tiered structure of activism. At the first level are the officially sanctioned protesters--often nonviolent, racially diverse, and media-friendly--who serve as the movement's public face, attracting coverage and providing a veneer of legitimacy. The second, smaller tier consists of more confrontational activists who are willing to disrupt events, block traffic, or engage in civil disobedience. The third tier is the smallest and includes those with the greatest commitment to radical action as well as a willingness to engage in acts of vandalism, sabotage, destruction of property, and violence against persons.

This third tier is the so-called "black bloc," which the supposedly "non-violent" protesters, or "Greens," know will commit violence. The Greens know they are being used for cover by the black bloc -- they are the "ocean" in which the revolutionary fishes can swim, and hide themselves, as Mao said.

The Greens also commit violent criminal acts -- the black bloc will assign them to commit specific acts. The Greens are told they must do this for the revolution. The Greens, having no criminal record or minor criminal records, can get away with violent crimes more than the black bloc thugs, who have arrest sheets a mile long.

But they're all working together. Even the FBI knows this.

But large sections of the FBI are aligned with antifa so they pretend they're unaware of the symbiotic relationship between the terrorists and their "clean hands" partners.

Each level claims to be distinct from the others, even while tacitly endorsing or creating opportunities for the others' activities. In fact, the diversity of tactics framework lets activists simultaneously disavow and take advantage of violence.

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In radical theory, property-destroying riots get framed as defensive responses to systemic oppression--and, in many cases, are encouraged outright. "Both civil disobedience and direct action can involve property destruction and can still be considered non-violent by many activists," Brock University professor Janet Conway notes in a 2003 law journal article. "Offensive as it is to liberal sensibilities, property destruction may be integral to the success of the [Black Lives Matter] uprising," writes RH Lossin, a lecturer in Harvard's history department. "Disavowing property destruction and even theft because of a spurious attachment to a reified notion of nonviolence is a mistake. It is a disavowal of power."

The Tesla Takedown campaign did not specifically address or denounce the fire bombings or their perpetrators in its statement opposing "violence, vandalism and destruction of property." As a practical matter, the diversity of tactics framework works only with a commitment to a principle of "non-denunciation," or refraining from publicly condemning the more militant tactics employed by allied activists. This preserves internal cohesion among activist groups and prevents public-facing activists from having to answer for the crimes committed by their more militant comrades. Such condemnations could also be used to splinter other activists or the Left generally. In this way, the Tesla Takedown leaders could invite escalation without owning it.

Read the whole thing.

Speaking of terrorist groups with supposed "clean hands" groups fronting for them: Would you believe that "pro-Palestinian" groups in the US are really front groups for Hamas?

Ryan Mauro:

America's non-profit sector is at the root of the post-October 7 tidal wave of domestic terrorism, antisemitism, and destructive anti-Israel protests plaguing the United States.

A series of large-scale investigations by Capital Research Center (CRC) revealed that the leadership of the so-called "pro-Palestinian" movement is, at its core, anti-American and anti-Western. It views the US exactly the same way it views Israel: as an illegitimate, genocidal entity that must be destroyed.

The cumulative conclusion of these reports serves as a warning about what is to come unless the corrective measures CRC identified are implemented: a burgeoning nationwide insurgency in the US that may be appropriately characterized as the "Turtle Island Intifada."

These seditionists often refer to the US as "Turtle Island" or the "so-called United States" as a way of delegitimizing America's right to exist. "Turtle Island" originates from a Native American myth claiming that a supernatural entity created North and Central America on a giant turtle's back during a flood.

Just as this "pro-Palestinian" movement wants to destroy Israel and build Palestine upon its "settler-colonialist" ashes, it also intends to actualize the vow of "Death to America" by "globalizing the intifada" and "bringing the war home" to "liberate Turtle Island."

CRC's newly released study, When Charities Betray America: How 'Pro-Palestinian' Protest Groups Promote Anti-Americanism, evaluated the rhetorical patterns of 496 of the most influential "pro-Palestinian" groups and activists in the US in the 15 months before the October 7 massacre and the 15 months afterward.

Within this large sample, CRC found that the movement's anti-American vitriol increased by 186% after the Hamas-led atrocities. The volume of content itself increased, as did its viewership and popularity.

The overall engagement of the anti-American posts on TikTok and X (formerly Twitter) grew by 2,167%. Calls for anti-American violence, particularly towards law enforcement, increased by a staggering 3,000%.

More at the link.

AG Pam Bondi, as well as Elon Musk, claim that the DOJ is investigating the financiers of US domestic terrorism -- the well-heeled Democrats funding all of this revolutionary violence.

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The Molotov attacks on Tesla dealerships weren't just mindless rage--they were coordinated, armed, and funded.

Now, the Department of Justice is digging deeper. Investigators are pursuing not just the arsonists, but also the shadowy networks that may have financed the crimes.

The House DOGE Subcommittee has formally called on the DOJ and FBI to expose any NGOs, activist fronts, or political donors fueling anti-Tesla violence.

This is no longer about protests. It's about domestic terrorism--and who's bankrolling it.

As AG Bondi warned: "No one--not the foot soldiers, not the financiers--will escape justice."

The anti-Elon mob is being unmasked. And the funders are next.

Sources: DOJ, House GOP Subcommittee on DOGE

But I don't know -- we've known the left were domestic terrorists since the early seventies.

You know what happened to the Weather Underground? They all got cush jobs in the left-controlled university system. They were paid off by their "clean hands" leftist partners.

Some of them, like Barack Obama's close friend and likely ghostwriter Bill Ayers, never even spent a day in prison for their years-long campaign of terror bombings.

posted by Ace at 03:11 PM

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