Progressive politicians in sanctuary strongholds like Minnesota have deliberately cultivated an environment of open defiance and hostility toward federal officers. Through sanctuary policies, inflammatory rhetoric, and active resistance to lawful operations, these elites have empowered radicals to obstruct and interfere with the execution of federal duties.
This betrayal undermines the rule of law, endangering the very officers sworn to protect our communities. It also seems that the activist judiciary rouges are continuing their subterfuge and stalling tactics by issuing anti-U.S. government/Department of Justice rulings nationwide from their district benches, defying earlier Supreme Court rulings.
The consequences are on full display in recent unrest, especially in Minneapolis, where “protesters” reveal themselves as seditious actors engaged in dangerous obstruction.
Operation Metro Surge, launched by the Department of Homeland Security in December 2025 under President Trump’s direction, targeted the “worst of the worst” criminal illegal aliens in Minnesota’s Twin Cities and beyond. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents conducted precision enforcement, resulting in over 4,000 arrests of murderers, rapists, gang members, child predators, and other violent offenders plaguing Minnesota streets. This was a necessary reclamation of sovereignty in a state undermined by lax local policies that shield lawbreakers and promote Somali fraud and grift.
Yet federal agents faced coordinated hostility: daily protests disrupting civic life, blockades of federal facilities, confrontations with agents, and efforts to shield fugitives through real-time documentation and interference.
These actions cross far beyond protected speech and into seditious territory. Sedition involves inciting or engaging in resistance against lawful federal authority – an exact match for the organized opposition here. Protesters have not merely assembled, they have actively obstructed duties and endangered officers through coordinated campaigns.
Such conduct threatens national security and public safety. Those responsible must face serious charges: sedition, obstruction of justice, and related felonies. Leniency only invites escalation. Peaceful dissent is one thing; paramilitary-style disruption of federal law enforcement is another entirely.
This movement bears the hallmarks of a paramilitary operation. Activists reactivate networks from prior unrest, deploying rapid-response teams to shadow ICE movements via social media, apps, and livestreams for real-time intelligence. Logistics sustain prolonged actions with supplies, protective gear, and provisions for occupations and marches in sub-freezing conditions. Planning coordinates multi-city strikes, business shutdowns, boycotts of firms like Target, and general strikes using structured threat assessment, courses of action, and execution chains akin to military processes. Communication hubs propagate propaganda and mobilize reinforcements, while operational elements execute blockades, pickets, and direct confrontations. This sophisticated apparatus aims to neutralize federal authority through sustained pressure and interference.
Ultimately, these foot soldiers serve as useful idiots for the Marxist movement. This ideological cabal exploits divisions and anti-enforcement narratives to erode borders, sovereignty, and the constitutional Republic. By portraying agents as oppressors and criminals as victims, they advance cultural subversion and a borderless agenda, weakening American exceptionalism.
We must reject this chaos, prosecute the seditionists rigorously, and enforce our laws without apology. Surrender is not an option; the Republic must endure.
Troy Carico is a former infantry enlisted soldier (11B) and infantry officer with branch qualifications including counterintelligence (35E) and military intelligence (35D). He served with distinction in the U.S. Army for more than 22 years and is highly decorated and service-connected disabled. He also has prior service as a civilian intelligence officer for the Defense Intelligence Agency Great Skills Program and has served in numerous clandestine assignments throughout the world. You can find him on X @CaricoTroy, LinkedIn @Troy Carico, and Substack.
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