For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.
~ Jesus Christ (Luke 6:45)
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Submitted by James V. Ferguson, MD –
I’ve never been to Minnesota. Until recently most of my awareness of that part of the country came from watching the Minnesota Vikings professional football team and listening to Garrison Keillor’s Prairie Home Companion. Keillor introduced me to the land of 10,000 lakes through his imagined small town of Lake Woebegon, “Where all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average.”
It’s sad this idyllic place doesn’t exist, but sadder is that many like me now envision the land of 10,000 lakes as the land of 10,000 loons, at least in Minneapolis. Hopefully, there will be some “de-escalation” of the conflict between ICE and the loons, scafflows and anarchists.
After calls between Minnesota’s Governor Walz, Minneapolis Mayor Frey and President Trump there should be agreement that illegal criminals in custody will be released to ICE, instead of the street. Seems pretty straight forward, though at this writing Frey continues to posture for his Somali handlers and leftist base, and Walz’s newly found spirit of cooperation remains suspect. I will go out on a limb and make a prediction: if Walz and Frey continue to waffle and fail to do what is lawful, President Trump will invoke the insurrection act and restore law and order.
If there had been Minnesota political leadership and police cooperation with duly authorized Federal agents, it would not have been necessary for Federal officers to go into the streets and re-arrest criminals convicted of rape, pedophilia, homecide and more. There would have been no protests, riots, assaults on ICE officers, road blocks or people shot by officers.
A scofflaw is a “contemptuous law breaker.” There should be no debate that criminals should be arrested. And by definition illegals have broken immigration law. Therefore a criminal illegal is subject to arrest under federal and local law. You may disagree with a law, but you do not have the right to refuse a law without consequences, including arrest and prosecution. It would seem that “Mogadishu-west” is rife with scofflaws. How can the misguided notion of protecting criminals instead of citizens be logically defended?
I’m glad for the reported “de-escalation,” but I’m curious why Walz suddenly called President Trump. At issue are 1300 criminal illegals currently jailed in Minnesota (470 have already been released in Minnesota). Local and state police should cooperate with ICE, allowing agents of the Department of Homeland Security to be withdrawn since they will no longer be needed as backup for ICE enforcement.
Perhaps Walz and Frey have concluded that they are losing the political argument. UT law professor Glen Reynolds recently described a frightened squid squirting ink into the water as a metaphor for Minnesota politicos using the ICE protests to obscure fraud investigations. Apparently, these investigations and the recent Department of Justice subpoenas for Walz, Frey and others have made a difference. However, I believe the discovery that members of the Walz administration were using The Signals Network to allegedly coordinate protests in Minneapolis is an even bigger issue. (The Signals Network is an “online means of communication.”) Furthermore, 5000+ donors connected to the network were “indexed and exposed,” which brings me to my next point for consideration.
Anarchy is “a state of lawlessness or political disorder due to the absence of governmental authority.” The absence of Minneapolis police to control protesters attacking Federal agents fits Mr. Webster’s definition.
Have you ever wondered about supposedly “spontaneous” protests? How do protest leaders seemingly show up with bull horns, the protesters sport matching shirts, carry professional signage and have protest gear including gas masks, shields, etc.? This takes coordination and money. Make no mistake: these sham protests are well funded by the George Soros organization and others.
Recently, Bill O’Reilly introduced me to tech mogul and communist Neville Roy Singham who now lives in Shanghai and funnels millions to the Democratic Socialists of America and radical groups in Minnesota involved with the anti ICE protests. In fact, Singham allied groups are planning a “nationwide shutdown targeting schools and businesses” on Friday January 30. This is not “organic activism.” Vice President JD Vance agrees, tweeting on X about “engineered chaos” in Minneapolis.
But there’s more to this tangled web. I recently learned about “nudge” technology where behavioral responses are engineered by governments, political parties, politicos, NGOs (non governmental organizations) and especially the media to “trigger” responses. The concept originated with Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein in 2008. The perspective is that people’s decisions are “shaped by emotional triggers rather than rational calculation.”
In Romans 5:7 Paul argued that someone might give their life for a good person, but not a bad one. No rational person would sacrifice their child for a criminal alien. Yet the “people of the lie” are taking the side of criminals above citizens. We are being “nudged” to accept a delusion and a perversion. Keep this in mind as you survey the news and especially as the election midterms approach.
America is in a new civil war manipulated by overt and shadowy forces. I feel less animus toward the manipulated loons in Minneapolis and elsewhere, who are what Lenin referred to as “useful idiots.” I have greater condemnation for the scofflaws who contemptuously break civil law. Perhaps I should use the word discernment instead of condemnation. I don’t hate anyone, but some of these miscreants test my patience.
My greatest challenge of condemnation, judgment, or discernment is reserved for the anti-American anarchists and the Marxists who fund them. Their vile hate-filled rhetoric is a window on their lost souls. They are driven by a perverse, hate-filled ideology and are deadly. Perhaps the grace of Christ can save these tortured and lost souls. But they should count their blessings that I am not the one to sit in judgment of their ultimate fate.
About the Author: Jim is a native of Knoxville, practicing Internal Medicine for more than 40 years, prior to retiring in 2020. Along with learning to become a “gentleman farmer,” he has written essays for the conservative weekly Knoxville Focus since 2007.
