Special Forces Veteran: This Isn't a Protest, This Is an Organized Insurgency Like We Faced in Iraq

Cam Higby infiltrated insurrectionist Signal groups. (Signal is a secure private message app favored by anyone who wants to keep his messages secret, including terrorists and insurrectionists.)

He posted several of the screenshots of the secret insurrectionist chats. Note that Minneapolis police are part of the insurgency.

And one of the top organizers is a former Tim Walz strategist.

@amuse @amuse

Jan 24

Minnesota anti-ICE Signal group leader identified as Amanda Noelle Koehler, a protest organizer and former Tim Walz campaign strategist, also known by the code name HAH and admin of the MN ICE Watch Signal chat group.

A former Special Forces Warrant Officer says: This is exactly what we saw in Iraq and Afganistan.

Eric Schwalm @Schwalm5132

As a former Special Forces Warrant Officer with multiple rotations running counterinsurgency ops--both hunting insurgents and trying to separate them from sympathetic populations--I've seen organized resistance up close. From Anbar to Helmand, the pattern is familiar: spotters, cutouts, dead drops (or modern equivalents), disciplined comms, role specialization, and a willingness to absorb casualties while bleeding the stronger force slowly.

What's unfolding in Minneapolis right now isn't "protest." It's low-level insurgency infrastructure, built by people who've clearly studied the playbook.

Signal groups at 1,000-member cap per zone. Dedicated roles: mobile chasers, plate checkers logging vehicle data into shared databases, 24/7 dispatch nodes vectoring assets, SALUTE-style reporting (Size, Activity, Location, Unit, Time, Equipment) on suspected federal vehicles. Daily chat rotations and timed deletions to frustrate forensic recovery. Vetting processes for new joiners. Mutual aid from sympathetic locals (teachers providing cover, possible PD tip-offs on license plate lookups). Home-base coordination points. Rapid escalation from observation to physical obstruction--or worse.

This isn't spontaneous outrage. This is C2 (command and control) with redundancy, OPSEC hygiene, and task organization that would make a SF team sergeant nod in recognition. Replace "ICE agents" with "occupying coalition forces" and the structure maps almost 1:1 to early-stage urban cells we hunted in the mid-2000s.

The most sobering part? It's domestic. Funded, trained (somewhere), and directed by people who live in the same country they're trying to paralyze law enforcement in. When your own citizens build and operate this level of parallel intelligence and rapid-response network against federal officers--complete with doxxing, vehicle pursuits, and harassment that's already turned lethal--you're no longer dealing with civil disobedience. You're facing a distributed resistance that's learned the lessons of successful insurgencies: stay below the kinetic threshold most of the time, force over-reaction when possible, maintain popular support through narrative, and never present a single center of gravity.

I spent years training partner forces to dismantle exactly this kind of apparatus. Now pieces of it are standing up in American cities, enabled by elements of local government and civil society. That should keep every thinking American awake at night.

Not because I want escalation. But because history shows these things don't de-escalate on their own once the infrastructure exists and the cadre believe they're winning the information war.

We either recognize what we're actually looking at--or we pretend it's still just "activism" until the structures harden and spread.

Your call, America. But from where I sit, this isn't January 2026 politics anymore.
It's phase one of something we've spent decades trying to keep off our own soil.

Who's organizing this? Peter Schweizer says that one major organizer is a hostile foreign government -- Mexico.

The Mexican consulates in America ARE MEETING WITH THE DEMOCRAT PARTY and organizing protests. There's a consulate in Minneapolis

"Mexico has 53 consulates, and I started looking at what Mexico was doing with those consulates. I found out that they're organizing protests, they're still organizing some of these anti-ICE protests. They've got a consulate up in the Twin Cities right now that's neck deep in what's going on in Minneapolis.

But I also found that they were meddling in our politics. They were literally meeting with Democratic Party activists in 2024 saying, how are we going to stop Trump? We got to stop Trump. We turned California from red to blue. We turned Arizona from red to blue. We've got to stop"

A top Mexico Senator on the Mexican National Defense Committee says, Quote, "Mexicans are in our territories. California, Nevada, Texas, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado, and Wyoming. We're going to take back the territory that was stolen from us -- We already know that the Mexican population in the United States reaches 39.2 million. We Mexicans are reclaiming our territory"

Hello. I hope you're all dug out from out of the ice.

posted by Ace at 12:16 PM

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