After a group of militants ambushed an ICE facility near Fort Worth, officials seized anarchist propaganda that could help shed light on their motives.
Assailants in black body armor reportedly surrounded the ICE Prairieland Detention Facility in Alvarado, south of Fort Worth, late on July 4, as The Dallas Express reported. They ambushed law enforcement, shooting an Alvarado police officer in the neck and firing dozens of rounds at ICE corrections officers.
As The Dallas Express reported, Acting U.S. Attorney Nancy Larson called it “a planned ambush with the intent to kill ICE corrections officers.”
Officials charged 10 suspects, each with three counts for attempted murder of federal officers and firing a gun in a violent crime. An eleventh suspect was charged with obstruction of justice and conspiracy for allegedly attempting to destroy evidence.
During the investigation, officials found numerous guns and suits of body armor. They also found anarchist propaganda – including a flag that read “resist fascism, fight oligarchy” and flyers that said “fight ICE terror with class war” and “free all political prisoners.”
After searching a Denton apartment connected to one of the suspects, the FBI found literature titled Organizing for Attack! Insurrectionary Anarchy.
The Dallas Express reviewed this manifesto, published in 2003, and found that it calls for acts of violence against the government.
“The state has to be knocked out of existence by the exploited and excluded, thus anarchists must attack: waiting for the state to disappear is defeat,” it reads. “It is through acting and learning to act, not propaganda, that we will open the path to insurrection.”
Kyle Shideler, director of homeland security and counterterrorism at the Center for Security Policy, told The Dallas Express that the attack apparently aligns with the manifesto’s belief system.
“For insurrectionary anarchists, police in particular are a highly desirable target,” Shideler said.
He cited “Armed Joy,” a 1977 work by Alfredo M. Bonanno, which issued a call to action with the following command: “Hurry comrade, shoot the policeman, the judge, the boss. Now, before a new police prevent you.”
Anarchists have been frustrated with the failure of “widespread protests” for years, according to Shideler. He said tension has been growing between anarchists and Marxist-Leninists, like the Party for Socialism and Liberation.
“While we can’t know for certain what the alleged attackers took from the pamphlet unless we learn more,” he said, “their actions are aligned with the beliefs of insurrectionary anarchists, who emphasize provocative and often violent direct action attacks over protests, organizing, or other forms of politics.”
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