Four far-left extremists face a myriad of conspiracy and other felony charges for allegedly plotting a series of New Year’s Eve bombings followed by a similar ambush on Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in Los Angeles.
The alleged attacks, hatched by the so-called pro-Palestine Turtle Island Liberation Front, were discovered by law enforcement after four of its members were allegedly caught testing out the pipe bombs they planned to plant at five LA businesses.
One of the four suspects, Audrey Carroll, allegedly admitted to keeping a “terrorist diary” where “I wrote down multiple plans that never happened.” A search of her home also yielded posters calling for “Death to America,” “Death to ICE,” and “Long live Turtle Island and Palestine.”
An Instagram account reportedly linked to the radicals and managed by Carroll similarly touts rhetoric calling America a “brutal evil monster,” demanding “revolutionary actions” through “anti-capitalism week” and “liberation through decolonization,” and threatening that “peaceful protest will never be enough.” One post referred to the assassination of Charlie Kirk as “some asshole got shot (tragedy, ya know?).”
A New York Post article noted that a fifth unidentified suspect believed to have connections to the group “was arrested in New Orleans while planning a separate attack.”
This is far from the first time “far left anti-government domestic terror cells” attempted to murder Americans and send ICE a message. And unless federal, state, and local law enforcement start making more arrests soon, it likely won’t be the last.
In September, President Donald Trump used his executive power to designate Antifa, “A SICK, DANGEROUS, RADICAL LEFT DISASTER,” a major terrorist organization. Despite receiving this classification three months ago, shortly after an alleged left-winger assassinated Charlie Kirk, Antifa and other radical groups have yet to feel the full force of the federal government. The Trump administration also previously promised to use the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act to interrupt the stream of left-wing funding to Antifa.
Outside of a few reportedly foiled attacks and forceful statements declaring “Antifa is an existential threat to our nation,” there appear to be few public examples of the administration’s attempt to curb the well-known rise of leftist violence in the U.S.
Is there a chance that the FBI is working secretly, yet tirelessly, behind the scenes to round up every last leftist terrorist? Maybe. The problem is, those far-left radicals, spurred on by Democrats, are working tirelessly in broad daylight to literally kill life, law, and order without any punishment.
Under Biden, federal law enforcement put child sex abuse investigations and pipe bomber investigations on the backburner to target those present at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. They were not only arrested and kept in inhumane conditions but hung out to dry by leftist lawyers who once scrambled to defend foreign terrorists.
Contrast that rigorous response to people wrongfully deemed domestic terrorists with the treatment given to the rioters who ravaged the nation’s cities during the summer of 2020. Instead of facing mass prosecutions for their crimes, the people who looted and burned buildings and cars in places like Minneapolis were bailed out by funds touted by Democrats, including vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris.
Law enforcement shouldn’t need footage of detonating explosives in the Mojave Desert to know Antifa and its adjacent organizations are up to no good and haven’t been for decades. Their reach is indisputable and only empowered by neglect from the feds.
Radicals in locations ranging from Portland to the suburbs inhabited by Supreme Court justices have spent years proudly destroying property and terrorizing Americans in the name of leftism. In many cases, they fantasize about such conquests online.
Arresting five people associated with a group that openly pledges “to escalate and get rowdy” if their demands to “make the fascists behave” are not met is a good start, but it’s far from enough to stave off future attacks. What we need, in the words of Christopher Rufo, are “midnight raids, mug shots, case numbers, nonprofit-status revocations, asset seizures, inmate rosters.”
With three years left in Trump’s second and last term, there’s only so much time for the administration to enforce a widespread crackdown like the one the president bragged about. The urgency for immediate action grows with the realization that leftist violence would be further neglected, if not encouraged by a future Democrat administration, much like what happened under President Joe Biden. Both are dangerous to Americans of all kinds, but especially Christian conservatives.
This country can’t afford to wait until last steps of an elaborate plan designed to harm both civilians and immigration enforcement are in motion to see the results Trump promised in September, days after a left-wing nutjob murdered a conservative civilian for his beliefs. The time for swift, strategic, and sweeping steps to end organized left-wing violence is now or never.
Jordan Boyd is an award-winning staff writer at The Federalist and producer of “The Federalist Radio Hour.” Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire, Fox News, and RealClearPolitics. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on X @jordanboydtx.
