Standing Together in Minnesota

 I have many fond memories of my visits to Minnesota and its Twin Cities.  Once I was there for a week or so during the winter.  From observation and my friends who lived there I learned two things: Minnesota people aren't afraid of the cold and the snow, and a primary reason they aren't is because mutual aid is ingrained in the culture.  If your car gets stuck in the snow, you won't wait long for passers-by or people who see you from their homes to come with shovels and big smiles, to dig you out.

That's why I am not surprised when I hear over and over the refrain from Minnesota people about why they're out there every time the federal thugs show up: I'm looking out for my neighbors.

Minnesota at the moment is the land of American heroes.  Facing at least 2800 heavily armed thugs who they now know will use violence against them, including lethal force, with impunity and without consequences, they continue to come out to face them in the streets, in even greater numbers.

After Renee Good was killed and the forces of Chaos spoke to support her killer and demonize her, I read a NYT column quoting MN Attorney General Keith Ellison suggesting that the only reason for this was to make Americans so afraid that they would cower in their homes, and look away.

Not in Minnesota, as it is turning out.  It's very volatile and dangerous, but thousands of federal thugs wreaking havoc, breaking laws with every breath and causing trauma, while trampling on the human rights of everyone now, disappearing children off to imprisonment--they can't make a move unobserved and unopposed.   

The besieged people of Minneapolis can now take heart from the six top federal prosecutors in Minnesota who resigned rather than be used in a smear campaign, and the four Civil Rights division prosecutors in Washington who resigned rather than accede to the Chaos orders to not perform the standard investigation of a fatal shooting by federal law enforcement.  These resignations reveal that Chaos is not even going through the motions of investigating this homicide, but is intent on smearing protesters, specifically the partner of Renee Good.  But they aren't getting away with it unnoticed or unopposed.

By looking out for their neighbors, regardless of where they came from, these Minnesotans are doubly expressing the best hope for America, both in what they are doing in the face of volatile thugs with military weapons, and in why they are doing it.  I can only express my vigilant support, and especially my admiration for their courage, as they up the game established in Chicago, pioneered in Portland and southern CA and wherever else in America the Chaos SS has brought violence and tears.