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Who are the Red Rabbits?

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Arthur Keller

Beavertown

"Socialist 'Red Rabbits' are training for national uprising against cops," was a June 6 New York Post headline. This certainly caught my attention and I hope yours. The Red Rabbits have mostly kept a low profile, but their activities are beginning to surface, and you need to know what is in the near future.

The Red Rabbits (a deliberately innocuous name) Security Commission, a subgroup within the Democrat Socialists of America (DSA) focused on "community defense" efforts, is preparing for a "national uprising against federal agents and police brutality." DSA organizers in Minnesota, Oklahoma City, Philadelphia, Tucson, Austin and Portland are trying to construct a nationwide security apparatus to support its expanding role in street protests and direct-action organizing.

Preparations included martial-arts sparring, evacuation planning, wound-packing and radio communications. They are training activists to escape physical holds, 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 and organized training on blocking intersections with bicycles, a practice known as "corking."

In New Jersey, DSA's immigrant justice working group has become a go-to security resource for immigrant organizations and Palestine affinity groups. Tucson's Red Rabbits work with the Party for Socialism and Liberation -- a would-be revolutionary political party with close ties to the Communist Party of China. Portland's Red Rabbits work with the National Lawyers Guild -- a left-wing legal group with historic ties to the Soviet Union. They are preparing for a "national uprising" -- one of the organization's stated directives.

Add to this threat their support in Congress. New York just elected Darialize Avila Chevalier, a Democrat Socialist who wants to abolish the police, prisons, borders and ICE, and is for universal Medicare and ending aid to Israel. Then there is Delia Ramirez of Illinois and Yvette Clarke of New York who introduced the Melt ICE Act to defund and abolish immigration and Customs Enforcement and end the Department of Homeland Security and Francesca Hong of Wisconsin who wants to abolish police departments. I could go on.

The communist takeover has begun slowly but sure, the Democrat party you once knew is no longer, they are taking over our youth, they are organizing to act ... If you (Republican, old time Democrat, Independent or never voted) keep ignoring these red flags, we will find ourselves living under one, be it Chinese or Russian. The midterm and 2028 elections are critical to our Democracy, our freedom.

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