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and that, quote, a standing National Guard quick reaction force shall be resourced, trained, and available for rapid nationwide deployment, unquote.

Later in October of 2025, the Department of Defense sent out memos to each state's National Guard, mandating that each state have their own quick reaction forces operational by January 1st, 2026.

With crowd control equipment and two full-time trainers by the National Guard Bureau being provided to each unit.

The units contain on average 500 troops per state, ordered to be ready to deploy within eight to 24 hours.

The initial portion of the bureau training courses cover how to quote, form squad-sized riot control formations, employ a riot baton as member of a riot control formation, how to supervise a riot slash crowd control operation, crowd management techniques, and domestic civil disturbance training, unquote.

On September 22nd, Trump signed an executive order designating Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization.

Three days later, Trump signed the National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 on countering domestic terrorism and organized political violence, which calls for a new national law enforcement strategy to quote, "...investigate all participants of these criminal and terroristic conspiracies."

and disrupt networks, entities, and organizations that foment political violence so that law enforcement can intervene in criminal conspiracies before they result in violent political acts, unquote.

The memo orders local joint terrorism task forces to, quote, investigate potential federal crimes relating to acts of recruiting or radicalizing persons for the purpose of political violence, terrorism, or conspiracy against rights, unquote.

as well as investigating institutional and individual funders, including employees of organizations which are, quote, responsible for, sponsor, or otherwise aid and abet the principal actors engaging in the criminal conduct, unquote, as previously described.

The Treasury Secretary will work with the Attorney General to, quote, identify and disrupt financial networks that fund domestic terrorism and political violence and shall deploy investigative tools to examine financial flows and coordinate with partner agencies to trace illicit funding streams.

The memo also instructs the IRS to, quote, take action to ensure that no tax-exempt entities are directly or indirectly financing political violence or domestic terrorism, unquote, and that the IRS shall refer organizations and their employees to the Department of Justice for investigation and possible prosecution.

Quoting the memo one final time, quote,

Investigations shall prioritize crimes such as the following, assaulting federal officers or employees, conspiracy against rights, conspiracy to commit offense, solicitation to commit a crime of violence, money laundering, funding of terrorist acts or otherwise facilitating terrorism, arson, violations of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, RICO, and major fraud against the United States, unquote.

At Trump's White House Antifa roundtable meeting, Seamus Bruner, the director of research at the Government Accountability Institute, discussed his theory of how a network of NGOs are funding Antifa and specifically mentioned Stop Cop City.

On May 1st, 2025, Homeland Security Investigations, Secret Service, and the acting ICE director raided a home in Irving, California, looking for a man who allegedly posted flyers around Los Angeles containing the names, pictures, and phone numbers of ICE agents with text in Spanish reading, careful with these faces.

In April of 2023, three activists were arrested for allegedly posting flyers identifying a police officer connected to the killing of Tortuguita on the mailboxes in that officer's neighborhood in Barlow County, Georgia, about 40 miles from Atlanta.

The activists were charged with felony intimidation and were later added to the Cop City Rico case.

To circle back to the topic of fear, the targeting of people putting up flyers simply identifying cops or anonymous ICE agents demonstrates how the state understands fear as a weapon.

That's why they did the RICO charges.