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How Minnesota Became a Crime Magnet

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Carlton Johnson II died Wednesday in a shootout with police at an apartment building in downtown Minneapolis. Johnson killed two people and wounded five others, including two police officers.

The Shoreline Plaza apartment building, formerly known as the Loring Towers, offers “affordable housing,” subsidized by taxpayers. Johnson paid only $105 a month for his apartment, and guess what? He wasn’t even from Minneapolis! He was from Chicago.

This is what’s wrong with Minnesota, generally. It’s why Somalis collected millions of dollars in fraudulent benefits. The state is so liberal, so generous in terms of giving out various kinds of welfare, that it naturally attracts scum, including criminals from Chicago who move there and get ridiculous “affordable housing” subsidies.

Taxpayer subsidies to support a public menace:

Carlton Johnson II had a long history of threats and violence that ended Wednesday when he allegedly shot six people in downtown Minneapolis, killing two and wounding two police officers.
In June, Johnson, 35, allegedly walked around Shoreline Plaza — where Wednesday’s mass shooting occurred — waving a gun and threatening to kill someone, according to court records.
That and other menacing behavior had led Shoreline Plaza’s owner to launch eviction proceedings the same month.
One man who lived in the building even went to police and accused Johnson of threatening him with a gun on June 25, though no charges were filed.
Johnson, who police say was killed in an “exchange of gunfire” after Wednesday’s rampage, was also hit with a restraining order in 2023 for allegedly sexually assaulting and threatening a woman, Hennepin County court records say.
In that case, he allegedly sent the woman a string of 120 text messages and pretended to be a police detective. “I was terrified by his numerous explicit death threats,” the woman said in a court document. . . .
Johnson racked up 34 separate criminal cases in the Twin Cites. Most of those cases involved traffic violations but he was also charged in two assaults and two misdemeanor drug cases.
In 2018, Johnson told his sister he “was not afraid to shoot people in the face” when she booted him out of her apartment. He was charged with domestic assault after his sister complained he had roughed her up.
The domestic assault charge was dropped after Johnson pleaded guilty to misdemeanor property damage. He was sentenced to 90 days in jail, but 86 days of the sentence were stayed under the terms of his probation agreement.
At the time of this week’s shooting, Johnson was subject to an ongoing child protection matter involving the 4-year-old daughter of the same woman who filed for the 2023 harassment order, Hennepin County court records show. Johnson was the girl’s father.
A 4-year-old girl who is Johnson’s daughter was in the apartment complex Wednesday, and her mother was one of the shooting victims. The girl was not physically harmed and was evacuated from the scene, according to people familiar with the investigation.
Court records indicate that Johnson had two daughters with different mothers, and it remains unclear which mother was the victim in Wednesday’s shooting.

The combination of generous welfare benefits and a lenient criminal justice system have turned Minnesota into a magnet for criminals. And as long as the people of Minnesota keep electing Democrats, the problem will keep getting worse. Amy Klobuchar is running for governor of Minnesota to continue this disastrous policy. Lisa Demuth is the Republican opponent who wants to put an end to it.



 

THIS! THIS! I VOTED FOR THIS! 100%

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If the Trump administration never accomplished anything else, this would be sufficient cause to call it an overwhelming success:

The Department of Justice (DOJ) charged former CNN host Don Lemon with federal civil rights crimes after he live streamed anti-ICE protesters storming a church in Minnesota.
Lemon, who was arrested on Thursday, was charged with “conspiracy and interfering with the First Amendment rights of worshipers during a January 18 protest at the Cities Church in St. Paul,” according to the Associated Press:

The veteran journalist is charged with conspiracy and interfering with the First Amendment rights of worshipers during a Jan. 18 protest at the Cities Church in St. Paul, where a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement official serves as a pastor. Another journalist and two protest participants were also arrested in Minnesota.

In a post on X, CNN’s Jake Tapper posted photos of the “DOJ indictment v Don Lemon.”
“The DOJ indictment v Don Lemon et al was just unsealed,” Tapper wrote, adding that it was 12 pages.
Lemon, along with Nekima Valdez Levy-Armstrong, Chauntyll Louisa Allen, William Scott Kelly, Jamael Lydell Lundy, Trahern Jeen Crews, Georgia Ellyse Fort, and two others were charged with two counts, according to the photos of the indictment posted by Tapper.
The defendants were charged with Conspiracy Against Right of Religious Freedom at Place of Worship, and “Injure, Intimidate, and Interfere with Exercise of Right of Religious Freedom at Place of Worship.”

Lemon’s lawyer is trying the “But Journalism” defense:

“Don has been a journalist for 30 years, and his constitutionally protected work in Minneapolis was no different than what he has always done,” [defense attorney Abbe] Lowell said. “The First Amendment exists to protect journalists whose role it is to shine light on the truth and hold those in power accountable.”>”Instead of investigating the federal agents who killed two peaceful Minnesota protesters, the Trump Justice Department is devoting its time, attention and resources to this case,” Lowell said, calling the arrest an “attempt to distract attention from the many crises facing this administration.”
Lowell called Lemon’s arrest an “unprecedented attack on the First Amendment” and said the journalist “will fight these charges vigorously and thoroughly in court.”

Everybody’s joking about the insane argument that being a journalist provides carte blanche to defy any law whatsoever.

“Sure, officer — I admit I was doing 110 mph through a school zone, but you see, I’m a journalist and that’s why we have the First Amendment, so that I can drive as fast as I want. ‘Freedom of the press,’ see?”



 

Minnesota: @camhigby Exposes Communications of Anti-ICE Conspiracy

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Amanda Koehler

The Saturday morning shooting of an armed anti-ICE rioter in Minneapolis triggered still more mayhem in the city despite below-zero temperatures. It has become obvious to everyone paying attention that the so-called “protests” (which are, in fact, a conspiracy to obstruct federal law enforcement) are being carefully coordinated.

Professor Reynolds confesses that he is unable to tell from online videos exactly what happened prior to Saturday’s shooting, and I feel the same, but the ambiguity of the available evidence hasn’t stopped Democrats from declaring with certainty that Alex Pretti was murdered, an assertion which I sincerely doubt. (Ask any prosecutor about the difficulty of disproving a self-defense claim in such a situation.) While all this controversy was capturing attention, however, independent journalist Cam Higby scored one of the most important scoops of the year by infiltrating a Signal chat group of “MN ICE Watch” activists.

No sooner had Higby begun posting this information than others started identifying members of this anti-law enforcement conspiracy, which apparently includes very well-connected Democrat activists.

If Amanda Koehler, a union-connected consultant who worked on Gov. Tim Walz’s reelection campaign, is an administrator of this network, how many other influential Democrats in Minnesota are part of the conspiracy to obstruct federal law enforcement in the state? Maybe all of them?

Perhaps most disturbing is that “MN Ice Watch” appears to be using law enforcement resources, perhaps the National Crime Information Center (NCIC), to identify vehicles and drivers. This would seem to suggest that local or state law enforcement officials in Minnesota are actively assisting the conspiracy to obstruct federal agents.

The entire apparatus of governance in Minnesota has been turned against the United States. Invoke the Insurrection Act, Mr. President.



 

The St. Paul Three: Anti-ICE Terrorists Now Facing Federal Felony Charges

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William Scott Kelly
Nakima Valdez Levy-Armstrong
Chauntyll Louisa Allen

Normal Americans — the kind of decent people who would never vote Democrat — were horrified last Sunday when video emerged of a “protest” mob storming a church in St. Paul, Minnesota:

The rationale of this “protest” was the idea, currently prevalent among Democrats, that it is morally wrong for Republicans to win elections and therefore, when Republicans are in office, obeying the law is optional.

Democrats never say this in so many words, of course. To express their beliefs as a clear syllogism would immediately expose the invalidity of their arguments, which is why they never debate anymore. Anyone who has watched Scott Jennings single-handedly dismantle leftists on CNN knows this — Democrats can’t win any kind of honest debate, which is why they end up shouting and shrieking and trying to silence opposition.

What happened at the Minnesota church was not a constitutionally protected exercise of free speech, as Samuel J. Abrams explains:

Recent events in Minnesota — where anti-ICE protesters interrupted a service at Cities Church in St. Paul, targeted pastor David Easterwood (who is apparently also an ICE official), then defended the disruption as an exercise of First Amendment rights — reflect a growing confusion about what the Constitution does and does not protect. Similar incidents have occurred in recent years, affecting churches, synagogues, and other religious services across the country. Whatever one thinks of the protesters’ underlying cause, the constitutional question here is not a close one.
“This is what the First Amendment is about,” said journalist Don Lemon, who entered the church with the protesters and defended their actions to a pastor who was asking them to leave. Organizers Nekima Levy Armstrong and Chauntyll Louisa Allen have since been arrested for allegedly violating the FACE Act, which prohibits using force, threats, or physical obstruction to interfere with religious services.
There is no First Amendment right to enter a house of worship and engage in conduct that effectively shuts down a religious service, even as part of a protest. Nor does anybody have the right to remain on private property after being asked by its owner or authorized representatives to leave.
The First Amendment offers its strongest protection to speech in traditional public forums — streets, sidewalks, and parks — while also protecting freedom of association, religious exercise, and freedom of conscience. A society committed to free expression depends not only on protecting speech, but on maintaining a clear delineation between protected speech, on the one hand, and unprotected civil or criminal conduct on the other.

You can read the whole thing. Don Lemon is typical of those in the media who, in becoming “Democratic operatives with bylines,” have embraced the radical “By Any Means Necessary” mentality of the modern Left. Whatever helps Democrats (or hurts Republicans) is good, and anything that hurts Democrats (or helps Republicans) is bad. There is no objective truth in their worldview, only partisan advantage, which is why they are such habitual liars. Those of us who are not Democrats can turn on the TV and observe half-a-dozen such lies in any hour-long segment on CNN (and as little as 15 minutes on what used to be called MSNBC), and the most outrageous element of the media’s pervasive bias is the fact that these partisan propagandists so obviously think they are our moral and intellectual superiors. Now, dear reader, scroll back up to the top of this post, gaze for a while at the mug shots of Don Lemon’s criminal accomplices and ask yourself: “Are these people superior to me?”

Attorney General Pam Bondi doesn’t seem to think so:

The fact that William Scott Kelly called this a “white supremacist” church is a huge clue about the kind of propaganda that is being deployed to mobilize these rioters against law enforcement. Kelly has claimed to be a combat veteran, but this has been disputed; while I cannot confirm reports that he was court-martialed for theft and dishonorably discharged, neither do I doubt those reports. “Bad causes attract bad people,” and Kelly appears to do nothing else except protest everywhere.

All of these culprits rationalized their crimes:

A BLM leader who serves on a school board, a woke TikToker, and a third alleged ringleader of an anti-ICE mob who stormed a Minnesota church during Sunday service have been arrested, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Thursday. . . .
Armstrong allegedly led the raucous group, including Don Lemon, from the Racial Justice Network to storm the church and call out resident pastor David Eastwood, accusing him of moonlighting as the acting field office director for ICE in Minnesota.
A picture of Armstrong being led away in handcuffs was shared by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on X on Thursday morning.
“Religious freedom is the bedrock of the United States – there is no First Amendment right to obstruct someone from practicing their religion,” Sec. Noem said on X.
AG Bondi also confirmed that a second suspect, Chauntyll Louisa Allen, who bragged about organizing the protests, had been taken into custody in a separate X post.
Allen — a Black Lives Matter leader and member of the Saint Paul Public Schools Board of Education — had earlier compared herself to Jesus, saying she had been inspired by his cleansing of the temple. . . .
A spokesperson for the city’s Board of Education told The Post that the district “has been made aware of this incident and is following all applicable policies and procedures” but “does not comment on pending legal matters.”
Later Thursday afternoon, it was announced that an anti-ICE influencer, William Kelly, had also been arrested for his involvement in the church riots.
Kelly, who uses the handle “DaWokeFarmer” on TikTok, was pictured on X being taken into custody while wearing a beanie hat emblazoned with the words “F*ck Trump,” by Noem. . . .
Armstrong, Allen, and Kelly are being charged with “conspiracy against rights,” which makes it a federal crime to intimidate someone in the free exercise of their rights as secured by the US Constitution.

The “Racial Justice Network” decided that this was a “white supremacist church” and why? Because the ACLU filed a lawsuit (Hussen v. Noem) against ICE and named as one of the defendants David Easterwood who, besides a pastor at this church, was employed as acting director of the local ICE office. In other words, the ACLU “doxxed” him, and that’s why this church got targeted even though Easterwood wasn’t even at the church at the time of the “protest.” Once radicals decide that it’s wrong to enforce the law, next they believe that law-enforcement officials are villains, and when they act on those perverse beliefs, bad things happen.



 

Crazy People Are Dangerous: Minnesota Lesbian Suicide-by-Cop Edition

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Last week when I wrote about the death of Renee Good, almost nothing was known about the background of the woman who got shot to death while trying to run over an ICE agent in Minneapolis.

Now we have several important facts, although still not the kind of coherent biography we need to fully understand her suicidal behavior. Most importantly, however, we do have more video of the incident — including from the ICE agent’s own cell phone — that demonstrates that Good and her lesbian “wife” were not innocent civilians:

Renee Nicole Good’s wife was antagonizing ICE agents and even urged her to “drive baby, drive” just moments before the fatal shooting in Minneapolis, according to shocking new video taken on the agent’s own cell phone.
The video — filmed by agent Jonathan Ross on Wednesday and obtained by Alpha News — shows the heated interaction between the Goods in the lead-up to the shooting.
Renee can be seen behind the driver’s seat of the plum-colored Honda Pilot, while her wife, Rebecca, stands in the street next to the car. A dog is also sitting in the back seat, peering out an open window.
As Ross records the interaction, Renee says to him, “That’s fine dude, I’m not mad at you” before her spouse starts jawing at the federal officer as whistles and sirens can be heard in the background.
“You wanna come at us? I say go get yourself some lunch, big boy. Go ahead,” Rebecca sneers at Ross while filming on her own phone outside the car.
Rebecca then tries to get back into the passenger side, as an agent orders, “Get out of the f–king car” and Renee backs up.
As the car is in motion, Rebecca, who is still out of the car, can be heard shouting, “drive, baby, drive, drive” before Renee peels off and clips Ross, prompting him to open fire. . . .
A video taken in the aftermath of the shooting Wednesday showed Rebecca sobbing as she cried, “It’s my fault.”
“I made her come down here; it’s my fault,” she said, her face covered in blood after having attempted to help Renee. “They just shot my wife.”

In the immediate aftermath of last Wednesday’s shooting, it had not yet even been clearly confirmed that Good was part of an anti-ICE protest, and some were still claiming that she was just a random Minneapolis mom who had coincidentally encountered this ICE raid in her neighborhood. But the truth has now been established:

Renee Nicole Good, the mom who was killed by a federal agent after veering her car toward him, was an anti-ICE “warrior” and was part of a group of activists who worked to “document and resist” the federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota, The Post can reveal.
Good, who moved to the city last year, linked up with the anti-ICE activists through her 6-year-old son’s woke charter school, which boasts that it puts “social justice first” and prioritizes “involving kids in political and social activism,” multiple local sources said.
“She was a warrior. She died doing what was right,” a mother named Leesa, whose child attends the same school, told The Post at a growing vigil where Good was killed Wednesday. . . .
Good and her wife, Rebecca, 40, were raising the boy together in the mostly working-class, activist-heavy neighborhood of south Minneapolis, which features tree-lined streets and a large number of homes with windows decked out in LGBTQ+ flags or signs depicting George Floyd.
Just as many others did in the lefty enclave, Good sent her son to Southside Family Charter School, a K-5 academy opened in 1972 that from its inception has been “unabashedly dedicated to social justice education,” according to co-founder Susie Oppenheim.
It was through her involvement in the school community that Good became involved in “ICE Watch” — a loose coalition of activists dedicated to disrupting ICE raids in the sanctuary city.

Rebecca Brown (left) and her lesbian “wife” Renee Good (right)

Via online accounts (that are not yet confirmed, I hasten to add) we are being told that Good faced criminal charges in 2022, and was subsequently charged with violating probation in October 2024. It is also being alleged that Good’s “wife” (no records documenting a legal marriage) Rebecca Brown was accused of abusing Good’s children, but that also is unconfirmed and, in fact, we do not even know if Rebecca’s surname was actually “Brown,” which may be an alias. What we do know is that the couple were living in Kansas City, Missouri, after the 2023 death of Renee’s second husband, and that Renee’s partner filed to have her named changed to Rebecca Brown Good. That was in late 2023, and sometime after Trump was elected in 2024, the couple reportedly moved to Canada, but in recent months had relocated to Minneapolis.

There are still many gaps in this narrative. How did Renee Good meet her lesbian “wife”? Renee was from Colorado Springs, and at least used to be a Christian. So her ending up in a relationship with a lesbian seems kind of weird, and I have yet to see a single news article explaining this bizarre trajectory. All I know is Crazy People Are Dangerous.



 

Minneapolis Is Decadent and Depraved

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The late Renee Nicole Good

There are about a million things I could say about what happened Wednesday morning in Minneapolis, and the subsequent reaction, but before we get to the commentary, first let’s grab the news:

The woman gunned down by an ICE agent in Minneapolis has been identified as 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good, who described herself as a mother, a wife and a poet.
Good was identified by her mom hours after she was shot and killed when she clipped an ICE agent with her car during a protest against the federal agents, the Star Tribune reported.
“Renee was one of the kindest people I’ve ever known,” her mother, Donna Ganger, told the newspaper. . . .
Video appeared to show her Honda Pilot making contact with an ICE agent as he opened fire. President Trump and other officials have said Good’s killing was justified as the officer was acting in self-defense.
Good was the mom of a 6-year-old boy and had recently moved to the neighborhood with her wife and son, according to her distraught spouse and a neighbor who spoke to the Tribune. She was killed just blocks away from her home, the outlet reported.
Her young son was left an orphan by the shooting, according to his shaken grandfather.
The child’s father, a comedian Good was previously married to, died in 2023, also at age 37. . . .

Gonna pause there a minute, because in none of the news accounts I’ve read is this explained: She was from Colorado Springs. The father of her child, Timmy Ray Macklin Jr., spent 14 years in the Air Force then tried to become a comedian before his death at age 36 (not 37). Less than three years later, the widow is living in Minneapolis with a lesbian “wife” and participating in radical protests? How does this happen? It’s hardly your typical Hallmark Channel movie plot. Back to the news:

In addition to being a mom, Good was a “writer and poet” who graduated from Old Dominion University, where she studied creative writing. She was originally from Colorado Springs.
“Wife and mom and sh–ty guitar strummer from Colorado; experiencing Minneapolis,” read her Instagram bio, which was accompanied by a pride flag and she/her pronouns.
She was killed in a middle-class neighborhood in south Minneapolis where ICE agents were carrying out an immigration operation Wednesday.
Good recently moved to the neighborhood with her partner and lived just a few blocks away from where she was fatally shot, the outlet reported. . . .
Good was among several people who allegedly blocked the street with their vehicles to prevent the agents from moving, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
Agents got out of their blocked truck and ordered the woman to move her SUV, at which point she sped toward one of the officers, pushing him with her vehicle, feds alleged. As he spun toward the driver’s seat window, he fired three shots into the car, footage from numerous angles shows
She was shot at least once in the head, and later pronounced dead at the hospital.
The Department of Homeland Security called her a domestic terrorist who attempted to kill federal agents.
“One of these violent rioters weaponized her vehicle, attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them — an act of domestic terrorism,” DHS assistant secretary for public affairs Tricia McLaughlin wrote on X.
Good’s mother was baffled by the idea of her being involved in an ICE protest, however, saying she was “not part of anything like that at all.” . . .
Footage taken near the scene appeared to show a distraught woman who identified herself as Good’s wife – who sobbed as she said the shooting was “her fault” and that she had a young child at school.
“They shot her in the head. I have a 6 year old in school,” she appeared to say, telling a bystander that they were new to the area and she didn’t know who to call.
“I made her come down here, it’s my fault,” she said. “They just shot my wife.”

At some point in the next few days, some reporter is going to get more biographical detail that can help explain this situation. Renee Good was not from Minneapolis, and it does not appear that her lesbian wife was, either. What does the grieving lesbian mean by, “I made her come down here”? What does the grieving mother mean that her late daughter was “not part of anything like that at all”? Obviously she was part of something like that, but you can understand that joining a radical terrorist group is maybe something you don’t tell your mom about.

The deadly chaos in Minneapolis happened two days after the state’s governor, embroiled in a fraud scandal, announced he would not seek reelection. The rhetorical escalation Wednesday was immediate:

OK, so the governor declares war against the United States, and the mayor tells federal agents to “get the f–k out” of his city, and what is the President of the United States supposed to do? America’s immigration laws are almost entirely the work of Democrats, beginning with the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965, also known as the Hart-Celler Act. Ted Kennedy was the leading advocate for passage of that measure in the Senate, at a time when Democrats had a 66-seat filibuster-proof Senate majority. These are the laws that ICE is enforcing. Why are Democrats so determined to prevent their own laws from being enforced? Good luck getting any kind of honest and coherent explanation about this enigma; Democrats are so far gone in Trump Derangement Syndrome that they can do little more than yelling obscenities.



 

Red States, Blue Cities: Minnesota, Somalia and ‘The Great Replacement’

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In an appearance Friday on Fox News, Trump strategist Stephen Miller said the Somali welfare fraud scandal in Minnesota could end up “being the greatest financial fraud scandal in American history.” The complete scale of this fraud has yet to be fully calculated, but the total amount certainly appears to be in the billions of dollars. The underlying question is why and how the situation in Minnesota developed, and was allowed to continue for so long, and the basic answer is Democrats — or, as they call themselves in Minnesota, the Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL).

The one thing we know about Democrats is that they crave political power like a junkie craves heroin. They have no actual principles other than winning elections. If winning an election requires them to appear “moderate,” Democratic candidates will espouse middle-of-the-road views, and even position themselves to the right of their Republican opponents. Such was the case, for example, during much of Joe Biden’s career; seeing which way the political winds were blowing in the 1990s, Biden vehemently expressed “tough-on-crime” views that make Donald Trump seem soft by comparison. Biden also talked tough on immigration back in the day, and this brings us to the question of why Democrats are now rallying in defense of illegal aliens, including millions who flooded into the country during Biden’s failed White House tenure. Quite simply, this was about Democrats importing future Democratic voters.

This is the presidential election map of Minnesota in 2020, when Biden got about 1.7 million votes (52%) to Trump’s approximately 1.5 million votes (45%). Biden won 13 counties, while Trump won 74 counties. And the important point is that Biden’s winning margin came entirely from Minneapolis-St. Paul. The official statewide vote total was 3,277,171 and nearly one-third of those votes (1,051,946) came from Hennepin County (Minneapolis) and Ramsey County (St. Paul). Biden got more than 70% of the vote in those two counties, with 532,623 votes in Hennepin and 211,620 votes in Ramsey — a combined 744,243 votes in the Twin Cities. These votes were 43% of Biden’s statewide total, and his total vote in Hennepin/Ramsey was more than three times larger than his statewide margin (233,012 votes) over Trump. Outside of Hennepin and Ramsey counties, there were 2,225,225 voters cast; in the non-Twin Cities counties, Trump got 1,200,716 votes (54%) to Biden’s 972,834 (44%). Even winning the rest of the state by a 10-point margin isn’t enough to overcome the Democratic urban vote in Minneapolis-St. Paul.

What is true in Minnesota is true of many other similar states, including all the “blue wall” states (Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin) where Trump edged out Kamala Harris in 2024. Philadelphia dominates statewide politics in Pennsylvania, as Detroit does Michigan and Milwaukee does Wisconsin. In almost any other state where Democrats are at least competitive at the statewide level, their hopes for victory rest on racking up lopsided margins in urban areas, sufficient to overcome the Republican advantage among suburban and rural voters.

Red States, Blue Cities — that’s the fundamental reality of politics in America today, and it explains why Democrats have dug in their heels to prevent the deportation of illegal immigrants. Because liberals have lower birth rates than do conservatives, Democrat-controlled jurisdictions would be losing population (and hence, political influence) compared to Republican-controlled jurisdictions. Because immigrant voters historically favor Democrats, the importation of masses of foreigners helps Democrats overcome the advantage Republicans hold among native-born Americans. Because the presidency and the Senate are both determined by statewide votes, and because the census redistributes House seats (and thus, Electoral College votes) every 10 years according to the population of states, demographics is destiny in American politics.

Minnesota hosts the largest Somali population in the U.S., with recent estimates placing the number of Somali residents around 80,000 to over 100,000, primarily concentrated in the Twin Cities area, making it a significant cultural and political force in the state.

That’s the AI summary from Google, and while 80,000 may seem a trifling number in a state where more than 3 million votes are cast in presidential election years, their numbers are sufficient to ensure Rep. Ilhan Omar’s election to Congress. The revelation that Somalis in Minnesota were engaged in a gigantic fraud — potentially “the greatest financial fraud scandal in American history,” as Miller said — casts a new light on the policy and politics of immigration. As I wrote about the next mayor of New York City last week for The American Spectator:

Analysis of polls in the mayoral election showed a curious anomaly. Among those born in the United States, only 31 percent supported Mamdani, who was favored by 62 percent of immigrant voters. After Mamdani won, exit polls showed that he got only 34 percent of the vote among those who had been born in New York City, but 83 percent among those who had lived in the city for five years or less. It’s said that “The Great Replacement” is a racist conspiracy theory, but in New York, it’s an accurate description of the Democratic Party strategy for victory — drive out the native-born population and replace them with immigrants who vote for Democrats.

In other words, just because it’s a “racist conspiracy theory” doesn’t mean it’s not actually happening. The nature of American politics, where Democrats use urban votes to obtain power in ways that negate the political influence of non-urban voters, makes this a legitimate concern when Democrats then use immigration policy to add to their urban constituency. The fact that these new-minted Democratic voters may also be swindling billions of dollars from taxpayers is just toxic icing on the poisonous cake, and there are still five A’s in “RAAAAACIST!”



 

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Minnesota Assassin Captured: Exactly Why Did Vance Boelter Go Crazy?

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This story broke late Sunday:

Suspected political assassin Vance Luther Boelter was captured Sunday following an intense manhunt for the gunman accused of murdering a Minnesota state lawmaker and wounding another, state officials announced.
Boelter, a 57-year-old former appointee of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, was sought by police for allegedly wounding Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, and killing former Democratic House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband.
“After a two-day manhunt and two sleepless nights, law enforcement have apprehended Vance Boelter,” Walz said during a press briefing.
The armed accused killer was taken into custody without incident in a rural, wooded area in Sibley County, southwest of Minneapolis, after authorities received a tip about a possible sighting hours earlier, state officials announced Sunday night.
Officers from multiple agencies, including SWAT teams, combed the area for hours and were assisted by helicopters using infrared cameras and drones, officials said.
It was a resident’s trail camera he passed in a rural town that tripped him up, according to the Star Tribune.
“Most of the search had concluded then,” Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher said. “But the trail cam picture alerted SWAT teams to go to the area, search a perimeter and with the help of drones, identify his location.”
Boelter’s capture ended the “largest manhunt in the state’s history,” which lasted around 43 hours, involved at least 200 officers and utilized a federal, state and local partnership, Brooklyn Park Police Chief Mark Bruley told reporters.

Boelter is “in the custody of U.S. Marshals as he awaits his first court appearance in federal court Monday afternoon”:

Boelter will now appear in federal court at 1:30 p.m. [Central time, 2:30 p.m. ET] after initially slated for a first hearing at the Hennepin County Public Safety Facility. The U.S. Attorney’s Office is scheduled to share statements about the federal case at 11 a.m.

There are many mysteries surrounding Boelter’s motive, and we’ll get to that, but first notice what Hennepin County prosecutor Mary Moriarty said in a press conference this morning:

“Political violence is prevalent, and the way we talk to and about each other has raised the temperature to unfathomable levels,” Moriarty said. “We cannot continue on this way in times of tragedy.” . . .
“As our community grieves, I encourage those out there seeking to create additional chaos to stop spreading misinformation and conspiracy theories” . . .

What evidence is there that “the way we talk” about politics had any influence on Vance Boelter? And exactly what kind of “misinformation and conspiracy theories” was the prosecutor referring to?

Having spent most of the day Saturday trying to figure out what motivated Vance Boelter, I am perplexed by Moriary’s seeming certainty that political rhetoric was to blame for his crimes. As someone who is constantly monitoring political discourse, I’ve been exposed to almost every form of “misinformation and conspiracy theories” out there, and yet have never gone on a murder spree. Just now, the acting U.S. Attorney in Minnesota gave a press conference in which he said the “why” of Boelter’s crimes is “not clear.” He said that Boelter had apparently been planning these assassinations for months, and had a list of targets — all of them Democrats. So there’s that. Meanwhile . . .

Boelter’s wife, Jennifer, reportedly worked as an intern for Gov. Tim Walz back when he was still in Congress. On Saturday morning, she was detained during a traffic stop near Onamia, which also involved several of Boelter’s relatives. According to Tom Hauser of ABC 5 Eyewitness News, nearly a dozen police vehicles swarmed the car and held the scene for up to three hours. Hauser’s sources say officers discovered a weapon, ammunition, cash, and passports inside the vehicle.

That’s kind of weird, isn’t it? The weirdest thing, however, is that while Boelter was married and owned a half-million-dollar home, he was spending several nights a month staying at home shared by several roommates, including his childhood friend David Carlson:

[There were] hints of a growing trouble within, which began after a three-year stint in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where [Boelter] claimed to have multiple business interests tied to his security company, Red Lion Group.
“I thought his demeanor [changed], he wasn’t as cheerful as he used to be. Since he got back from Africa, I guess,” Boelter’s roommate and self-described best friend David Carlson told The Post, adding he got back four months ago and quit his job to go there.
“He came back and he was struggling a little bit. I thought it was normal struggles.”
Boelter calls himself the CEO of Red Lion Group on his LinkedIn page, where he lists the company’s home base as the Democratic Republic of Congo. But besides the passing reference, virtually no information is available about the company.
“His dream was to have a security company,” Carlson said, hinting that his dream was more rooted in delusion than reality.
“He never was or never had a security company. He wasn’t doing security for anybody — it wasn’t his job.”
Carlson noted that Boelter even had two official cars for the alleged company despite having “no clients [and] no employees.” . . .
Carlson said his friend had a tough time landing a job after returning from his most recent overseas trip, sharing, “I thought his thing in Africa was bringing him down.” . . .
Boelter’s apparent obsession with play-acting as a security operations expert extended to another dubious business venture called Praetorian Guard Security Services, ostensibly helmed by his wife, Jenny.
The company website lists Boelter as “Director of Security Patrols,” boasting he’s been “involved” with “security situations in Eastern Europe, Africa, North America and the Middle East, including the West Bank, Southern Lebanon and the Gaza Strip.”

Boelter’s “obsession with play-acting as a security operations expert,” and his inexplicable fascination with Africa are obviously part of the psychological profile here. There was some kind of delusional thinking pattern involved, but what’s with him doing the part-time roommate thing with his childhood buddy? It doesn’t make sense, and law enforcement isn’t giving us much to work with, in terms of figuring out when, why and how Boelter went off the rails.



 

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