NY Times Apoplectic Minnesota Mostly Peaceful Protest Called “Insurgency”

It took two Fish Wrap writers, Greg Jaffe and Thomas Gibbons-Neff, to do this “news analysis”, for which they are upset by the term insurgency. I don’t remember anyone at the Times complaining about the term “insurrection” when a different incident happened

Politicians Are Calling the Protests in Minnesota an Insurgency
The term, used to describe war, poses dangers when applied to American political unrest.

The day after federal immigration agents killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, a U.S. Senate candidate in Maine spoke with his supporters about resisting the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

Graham Platner, a Democrat and Marine combat veteran, urged them to join “watch groups,” “rapid response teams” and “intelligence collection networks” to alert citizens and potential targets to the presence of federal immigration agents in their communities.

“Don’t just join a Signal thread and monitor it,” Mr. Platner told the audience in the coastal town of Kittery, referring to the encrypted texting app. “You’ve got to get in a room with people. You’ve got to develop relationships and trust.”

Mr. Platner was talking about a form of nonviolent resistance that employs methods common in war zones like Syria and Ukraine, where civilians built text chains to track and seek shelter from enemy attack drones and fighter jets.

Kinda sounds like an insurgency to me, especially coming from the guy who had the actual Nazi tattoo.

Increasingly, though, Republicans have described the measures he was highlighting as something else: an American insurgency.

“The issue is always revolution, right? That’s what these people want,” Representative Eli Crane, Republican of Arizona and a former Navy SEAL, told the right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson on Monday. “They want to fundamentally remake and tear down the institutions and the culture of this country.”

To Mr. Crane, the resistance in Minneapolis and elsewhere added up to “communist insurrection,” and he argued that President Trump should use the U.S. military to reimpose order.

The article next mentions Tucker Carlton, but, he’s gone full wacktard, I don’t listen to him anymore, and Seth G. Jones. Whatever. That’s it. That’s the whole of the argument

They started this garbage early January. Sure looks like an insurgency, eh?

To Emma Sky, who spent years in Iraq advising U.S. military commanders, the masks evoke the state-sponsored sectarian militias that were often sent out by Iraqi strongmen to terrorize civilians. “It is in dictatorships and authoritarian systems that opposition movements are routinely described as terrorists or insurgents, which signals that violence is the appropriate response,” said Ms. Sky, a lecturer at the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs.

Those who label protesters as insurgents or domestic terrorists and suggest that they must be put down using force or arrest ignore the fact that most insurgencies are resolved through negotiation.

Good grief. Was this actually written by Media Matters? Or the insurrectionists? Don’t attack federal agents and their families at home and they won’t have to be masked.

Anyhow, almost no one is using the term insurgency. It’s usually things like assholes, dipshits, retards, wackjobs. How many called J6 an insurrection? The words was thrown around by tons of politicians and media talking heads. Other terms were “attempted coup”, riot (closer, though most were peaceful), and treason. For a short little action that was over in a couple hours. No one attempted to hold the Capitol. No one seemed to be worried about “dangers when applied to American political unrest”. How long has the crap been going on in Minneapolis? All to protect felons illegally present in the U.S.