When Terror Comes Through the Mail
Let’s talk about what actual domestic terrorism looks like.
A 12 page anonymous letter showed up at the Sonoma County Republican Party office in Northern California. Not a fundraising appeal. Not a concerned constituent’s rambling complaint. This was something else entirely. The document, grandly titled “A Real American Response to Foreign Terrorist Invasions,” contained detailed instructions for building chemical improvised explosive devices. The goal? Sending ICE agents “home in a body bag.”
You know what’s chilling? The careful premeditation. Twelve pages. Step by step bomb making instructions spread across pages two and three. Specific threats against named Trump administration officials including Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and White House deputy chief of policy Stephen Miller. Even Rep. Ilhan Omar got a mention, though she’s spent her entire career attacking ICE and everything it stands for.
The letter opens by referencing Renee Nicole Good, fatally shot by an ICE agent in Minneapolis this month. According to the Department of Homeland Security, Good was trying to ram her vehicle into an agent. That’s called self defense in any rational legal framework. But this anonymous writer sees something different. To them, it’s evidence that “every private citizen’s life, immigrant or not, is at risk of annihilation by these low IQ, trigger happy domestic terrorists.”
Low IQ. Trigger happy. Domestic terrorists. That’s what they’re calling federal law enforcement officers doing their jobs.
Where We Draw the Line
Here’s the thing about living in a constitutional republic. You get to disagree with government policy. Vehemently, even. You can protest. You can organize. You can vote people out of office and campaign for different leadership. What you absolutely cannot do is mail bomb making instructions to political offices while calling for federal agents to be “IED’d, run over with vehicles, shot at by snipers, sprayed with toxic chemicals.”
That’s not protest. That’s incitement to murder.
The letter mocks ICE agents for “living out their Call of Duty fantasy army roles, only with real assault weapons.” It accuses them of waging a “real foreign invasion style war” on unarmed men, women and children. Never mind that ICE’s primary mission involves removing criminal aliens who’ve already broken our laws. Never mind that these agents have families and communities and take an oath to uphold the Constitution just like every other federal officer.
The sender was careful to distance political parties from the document. “NOTE: No official of any party had anything to do with the composing or distributing of this document; it is strictly a private patriotic effort, like Donald Trump’s January 6th Washington, D.C., insurgents,” it reads on page seven. That comparison isn’t accidental. It’s meant to justify violence by drawing false equivalencies.
But sending detailed explosive device instructions isn’t patriotic. It’s felonious.
The Silence That Speaks Volumes
What bothers me most isn’t just that someone wrote this manifesto. Disturbed people exist in every society. What bothers me is the broader climate that makes someone think this kind of rhetoric might find sympathetic ears.
For years now, we’ve watched prominent Democrats compare ICE to the Gestapo. We’ve seen elected officials call for abolishing the agency entirely. Protesters have blockaded ICE facilities. Activists have published home addresses of agents online. The message has been consistent: these people aren’t legitimate law enforcement. They’re monsters.
When you dehumanize people long enough, violence becomes inevitable. Someone always takes the rhetoric seriously.
This letter didn’t appear in a vacuum. It emerged from an environment where attacking immigration enforcement has become not just acceptable but virtuous in certain circles. Where doing your job as an ICE agent makes you fair game for harassment, doxxing, and apparently now targeted assassination attempts.
The letter states plainly that ICE agents and “their backers need to become the targets.” That’s not metaphorical. That’s operational language. It’s planning.
No return address. No name. Just twelve pages of hatred wrapped in the language of patriotism and mailed to people whose only crime was organizing around conservative principles in Northern California.
The FBI will investigate. They should. Whoever sent this crossed every legal and moral line we have. But investigations only matter if we’re willing to acknowledge the problem. Political violence isn’t activism. Bomb making instructions aren’t free speech. And federal agents enforcing duly passed immigration laws aren’t foreign invaders.
They’re Americans doing a job most of us wouldn’t want. They deserve better than body bags. They deserve our support.
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