Make no mistake: The city of Minneapolis is a crime scene. The whole town should be cordoned off with yellow police tape. The government of the United States of America would have you believe that the chaos and carnage in the streets of that fair city have been caused by Haitian immigrants who spend most of their time killing and eating their neighbors’ dogs and cats, or Somali immigrants ripping off the feds in a sinister, wide-ranging daycare scam, or lawless United States citizens brandishing their dangerous, deadly cell phones.
As anyone who has adequate vision and normal IQ understands, those are Trump-approved lies. The crime spree has nothing to do with immigrants, refugees, dogs, cats, daycares, or American citizens. The crime spree is an intentional project of the federal government, carried out by a paramilitary strike force of domestic terrorists who are hell-bent on brutalizing anyone who gets in their way or attempts to document the unrestrained evil that has driven their invasion of blue states.
ICE agents are offered bounties and bonuses for every individual arrested and charged. ICE Maiden Kristi Noem wants 3,000 deportations per day and evidently does not care if the deportees are documented or undocumented, have a criminal record or not, are migrants or United States citizens, or are still in diapers. At the same time, the utterly corrupt Pam Bondi, who doesn’t even bother to pretend to be someone who gives a rip about the Constitution, told Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz that she would move the goon squads out of Minneapolis in exchange for Minnesota’s voter rolls. And just to be clear, that is extortion—perpetrated by the attorney general of the United States.
Not surprisingly, Gov. Walz declined the offer.
This is not immigration enforcement—it is a reign of terror. Harm is the point. Suppression is the desired outcome. Brutality and violence are the tools of totalitarian dictatorships everywhere, and the harm is entirely intentional. Anyone who does not understand this should read a biography or two about Stalin, Putin, Mao, Shi, and Hitler. This is their playbook.
The residents of Minneapolis have been savaged. Citizens have been subjected to gang-style executions and arrests based solely on proximity to ICE patrols. Persons of color have been dragged out of their homes in their underwear in subzero temperatures. Five-year-olds have been taken into custody and sent to prison camps in Texas. Pregnant women have been pulled from their cars, shoved to the ground, and assaulted. The governor and attorney general of Minnesota, along with the mayor of Minneapolis, have been persecuted, threatened, disparaged, and harassed.
But here is what we have learned this week: The people of Minneapolis, and the throngs of non-Minnesotans nationwide who have gathered in outrage and solidarity during the siege, have a collective power that cannot be circumnavigated by the fascist in the White House or his cabinet of creeps.
America has had enough. It took way too long for some of us to get the memo, but the memo has finally been delivered. Liberals are outraged. Progressives are outraged. Independents are outraged, and, finally, even arch conservatives are done with the Trump regime. The only Americans who still think this freak show is a good idea belong to the Nazi wing of the MAGA base, and they are impervious to state-sponsored evil. But unrepentant racists notwithstanding, every American with a beating, human heart and one ounce of empathy now knows exactly what to do.
Minneapolis just handed us the recipe for resistance.
