Meet the Red Rabbits

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In 2009, Barack Obama advocated an internal, Gestapo-like security force:

“We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”

That never came to pass, and Obama apologists whined that The Lightbringer was only talking about the sum of the enforcement arms of the Federal Government. He plainly wasn’t, but if they were correct, that goal reached fruition during Obama’s third term: Biden’s Handler’s Administration. Their “whole of government” approach to weaponization against Normal Americans—largely but not exclusively Republicans—was the closest thing Democrats have been able to manage.

What Obama, and other Democrats mean is that to impose “our Democracy,” a tyranny of the majority, on our constitutional republic, will require an actual army, as well as disarmament of citizens. They know they won’t be able to rely on our military and federal law enforcement to oppress and kill their fellow Americans. Certainly, the COVID oppression revealed some of them will, but not enough. It’s an ongoing project for them, one taken up by the Democratic Socialists—there’s a misnomer—of America:

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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.
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“Red Rabbits?” The “red”—as in communists and Mao’s Red Guard—is no coincidence. They’re thugs, enforcers, the armed vanguard of the coming revolution, the new embodiment of Obama’s “civilian national security force.” The One must be so proud. The article notes they’re worried about IRS scrutiny because they could lose their tax-exempt status and that of their funding sources. They ought to be worried about DOJ scrutiny too.

The Red Rabbits claim that their focus is on five core security skills: de-escalation, Stop the Bleed (a first aid training on bleeding control), firearm safety, unarmed self-defense, and protest marshalling (crowd management during demonstrations). The commission has set a goal of having at least five members in 40 percent of DSA chapters complete these trainings. [skip]
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During the event [a meeting of the DSA’s central political committee], local chapters described a range of security preparations broader than that envisioned by the national commission. These included martial-arts sparring, evacuation planning, wound-packing, radio communications, the use of umbrellas and signs to shield participants from and block “fascists,” and even chemical-exposure training, in which participants practiced being pepper-sprayed.

As one might imagine, there’s a “queer” element to this militancy:

Some chapters already conduct in-house trainings or are working to expand them, such as the Philadelphia chapter’s plan to develop what one member called “sick” firearm-safety trainings. The DSA’s Oklahoma City Queer Fight Club has evidently become a local training hub, teaching self-defense and broader “community defense” skills. Portland DSA has organized trainings on blocking intersections with bicycles, a practice known as “corking.”

These Red Rabbits are some of the people we’re seeing at violent, anti-immigration enforcement street insurrections across the country. We’re steadily discovering more about their funding, both internal and foreign, and their connections to hostile foreign regimes. These are not spontaneous, local, grassroots “protests,” but nationally coordinated, directed, and financed attacks against legitimate authority designed to destabilize America and replace our constitutional, representative republic with a totalitarian communist dictatorship.

As a 501(c)(4), the DSA must, according to the IRS, “operate primarily to further the common good and general welfare of the people of the community.” Some Red Rabbits activities, like know-your-rights education and de-escalation training, probably meet that threshold. But it’s hard to argue that a street-level security force geared toward disruption, confrontation, and resistance to law enforcement exists primarily to “further the common good.” Tactics such as blocking traffic with bicycles, training activists to escape physical holds, forming umbrella phalanxes to confront “fascists,” and conducting “takedowns on intersections” bear little resemblance to traditional social-welfare activities. Instead, they suggest preparation for a broader “national uprising”—one of the organization’s stated directives.

Apparently, while the Red Rabbits are engaging in some firearm training, they are not as yet employing guns in substantial numbers in their insurrections. That’s a temporary, strategic matter. No communist revolution has long been so restrained. As Mao said: “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”

Barack Obama knows that, and so do the Red Rabbits.

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Mike McDaniel is a USAF veteran, classically trained musician, Japanese and European fencer, lifelong athlete, firearm instructor, retired police officer, and high school and college English teacher. He is a published author and blogger. His home blog is Stately McDaniel Manor.