“Meet Anita Smithson, candidate for MN State Senate, and an avid ICE Watch dispatcher. In her spare time, she likes supporting her BLM activists, being a sperg for Tim Walz, and does Risk Management for a major bank.”
“There is no benefit to holding power when you so fear the *loss* of power that you convince yourself never to wield your power to begin with.
The left, barely camouflaged as moderates, wins an election in VA and instantly — using full power — turns the state into a prog wet dream, throwing up roadblocks to it ever returning to a non-failed state.
Meanwhile, the GOP consultant class has never met a potential “controversy” that may “alienate moderates” they haven’t actively and officiously shrunk from.
It’s demoralizing and retarded cowardice masquerading as nuanced real politick.”
“For 10 years the right has eaten punch after punch, street violence, doxxing, cancellations, lawfare, hoaxes, riots, vandalism on businesses, GOP offices, homes, murder, and the left has faced zero real consequences. Not one meaningful reckoning. And your brilliant contribution right now is to go after ICE & BP who are on edge because they know they have a target on their backs and are attacked daily? After the last decade you thought deportations were going to all be peaceful? The communists don’t respect your “principles.” They mock them, exploit them, then hang you with the rope you handed them while you lecture everyone about decorum. Realize where we are!”
“There are thousands of ICE arrests happening nationwide every day, but you only seem to hear about violent resistance to ICE in Minnesota.
Why?
Oh right, the Governor dropped out of his race b/c he was caught overseeing billions in Somalian fraud & now he wants to divert attention away from his crimes.”
“Every concealed carry course teaches you that when you are carrying, any conflict you become involved in is a conflict that has a gun in it, and that isn’t a fact that always makes you safer.
Because anybody who knows you have it and has a good reason to think you’re about to use it is allowed to use theirs first. Especially cops. Having a gun never makes you safer in an interaction with a cop, and if you find yourself in a situation where you are interacting with a cop while legally carrying, you want that gun to cease to be an element of the encounter.
Concealed carry courses teach you how to interact with cops when you are carrying. You display your empty hands — you put them on your steering wheel or in the air, you inform the cop that you are a permit holder, you tell him where the gun is, and then you wait for instructions on what to do next. If the cop feels that he is not safe, you are not safe.
Because if he gets the idea you’re reaching for that weapon, he may kill you and your permit or your right to carry has absolutely no bearing on his justification to do so.If a cop reasonably thinks you pose a danger to him, he can justifiably shoot you.
If you have a gun and you can get hold of it, then you reasonably pose a danger to the cop. The Second Amendment, your concealed carry permit or open carry laws in your state are not part of this analysis. They do not matter in any way.
Taking your weapon to a violent demonstration where you will be among protesters who are clashing with cops is a wildly irresponsible thing to do, because the presence of a gun changes the way the cops are going to deal with you and everyone you are with.
The Second Amendment and concealed carry permits and open carry laws in no way lessen the criminal implications of having a gun while committing a crime. The presence of the gun escalates the seriousness of the crime dramatically over what it would have been if you had committed the crime without a weapon, and it makes no difference whether you have a permit or whether you got the gun from a guy in an alley.
Direct action — impeding federal law enforcement officers in the course of their duty, helping migrants to escape from law enforcement, assaulting an officer — these are all crimes, and every one of these crimes becomes much more severe if you’re armed while you’re doing it.
Having a permit doesn’t mean it was legal for him to be carrying at the demonstration, because it is never legal to be armed while doing a crime.”
A hallmark of the corrupt “leaders” on Minnesota had been to delete evidence, emails, paper trails, and now SignalChats which they use to collude and get around those pesky transparency laws.
This is destruction of evidence to their conspiracy, and should equal additional charges.
At a Sunday press event in Blaine, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz said that children in the state are hiding from immigration enforcement and compared the moment to the story of Anne Frank. He warned that someone might write a children’s book about Minnesota the way people read about Anne Frank. Walz also urged people who voted for the current administration to reconsider their support and to speak out against the actions of ICE in the state.
Tychicus in part here is an important piece from that article
That said, because Christianity speaks to issues of due process and moral action more broadly, the Christian worldview has something to say in this moment. The deaths of Good and Pretti did not need to happen. Not because we can already conclude that law enforcement acted wrongly, but because these deaths followed from choices that placed individuals in volatile and dangerous situations. The chain of events could have been avoided. Even if an investigation were to conclude that Pretti or Good were unjustly or even illegally killed, a moral reality would still remain: They should never have been in those situations in the first place.
They chose to place themselves in what the field of ethics calls a “danger zone.” Even without adjudicating legal fault, Christian ethics can still speak to the moral wisdom—or lack thereof—of placing oneself in volatile confrontations with armed state authority. But even here, we should acknowledge another angle: Law enforcement, too, has the moral responsibility to act within the law—judiciously, proportionately, and with an eye toward minimizing harm. Responsibility is an equal offender on both sides.
Wandering Views 
Nothing to see here, just a state and local govts colluding with the media, anarchists, Antifa, and ICE stalkers to create an actual insurrection.
https://x.com/i/status/2015528403059786221
“Why were members of your staff caught in a Signal chat coordinating violent resistance to federal agents?
Isn’t that insurrection?”
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https://x.com/i/status/2015465799280988161
“AP NEWS VIDEO JOURNALIST WAS IN THE SIGNAL CHAT
LAURA BARGFELD 👇”
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Local govt “officials”….
https://x.com/i/status/2015546899462303867
https://x.com/i/status/2015464373062447539
“You got workers in that Signal chat connected to @USBANK
How many people has she looked up using the bank tools.
I hope @USBANK is investigating Anita Smithson bank database access.”
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“Meet Anita Smithson, candidate for MN State Senate, and an avid ICE Watch dispatcher. In her spare time, she likes supporting her BLM activists, being a sperg for Tim Walz, and does Risk Management for a major bank.”
https://x.com/i/status/2015113664160764245
https://x.com/i/status/2015581702475714610
“A Minnesota Public Radio journalist was caught lurking in a Signal chat that tracks ICE agents.
Ben Hovland’s name shows up right alongside protesters calling out fed locations and tailing cars in real time.
He reports on immigration, has his Signal handle in his Instagram bio, and now his X account is locked tight.
People are asking: was he covering the story, or part of it?”
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Of course the squishy weasels on the right are getting cowardly again.
Here’s a couple messages for them.
https://x.com/i/status/2015459447649476990
“There is no benefit to holding power when you so fear the *loss* of power that you convince yourself never to wield your power to begin with.
The left, barely camouflaged as moderates, wins an election in VA and instantly — using full power — turns the state into a prog wet dream, throwing up roadblocks to it ever returning to a non-failed state.
Meanwhile, the GOP consultant class has never met a potential “controversy” that may “alienate moderates” they haven’t actively and officiously shrunk from.
It’s demoralizing and retarded cowardice masquerading as nuanced real politick.”
——
https://x.com/i/status/2015599037777600714
“For 10 years the right has eaten punch after punch, street violence, doxxing, cancellations, lawfare, hoaxes, riots, vandalism on businesses, GOP offices, homes, murder, and the left has faced zero real consequences. Not one meaningful reckoning. And your brilliant contribution right now is to go after ICE & BP who are on edge because they know they have a target on their backs and are attacked daily? After the last decade you thought deportations were going to all be peaceful? The communists don’t respect your “principles.” They mock them, exploit them, then hang you with the rope you handed them while you lecture everyone about decorum. Realize where we are!”
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Truth.
And those useless Rs calling for ICE to back off know this too.
#USELESS
https://x.com/i/status/2015560739138732067
“There are thousands of ICE arrests happening nationwide every day, but you only seem to hear about violent resistance to ICE in Minnesota.
Why?
Oh right, the Governor dropped out of his race b/c he was caught overseeing billions in Somalian fraud & now he wants to divert attention away from his crimes.”
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https://wng.org/opinions/law-remains-law-1769414547?mkt_tok=NzEwLVFSUi0yMDkAAAGfmLoCws7BYTwCE-Wmw4OzeTElgOgpiq50M_dPOpzFEc2ih0mNJt9XSvpcRQrR8Gd9qQhw-mnvn4UNl4a5Ov2qzPLaOj2YPE7u8BJzXhhLatl6Yw
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The World article is blurred out for me.
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Root them out and arrest them. This is illegal.
https://x.com/i/status/2015253106938745052
“So what @camhigby showed us.
1 They have access to the national database to trace license plates in real time.
Meaning someone in law enforcement is passing on plate read data.
Not only that they were notified of police shift changes from within the department.
Its organized crime.”
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Again, facts.
https://x.com/i/status/2015509372760195336
“Every concealed carry course teaches you that when you are carrying, any conflict you become involved in is a conflict that has a gun in it, and that isn’t a fact that always makes you safer.
Because anybody who knows you have it and has a good reason to think you’re about to use it is allowed to use theirs first. Especially cops. Having a gun never makes you safer in an interaction with a cop, and if you find yourself in a situation where you are interacting with a cop while legally carrying, you want that gun to cease to be an element of the encounter.
Concealed carry courses teach you how to interact with cops when you are carrying. You display your empty hands — you put them on your steering wheel or in the air, you inform the cop that you are a permit holder, you tell him where the gun is, and then you wait for instructions on what to do next. If the cop feels that he is not safe, you are not safe.
Because if he gets the idea you’re reaching for that weapon, he may kill you and your permit or your right to carry has absolutely no bearing on his justification to do so.If a cop reasonably thinks you pose a danger to him, he can justifiably shoot you.
If you have a gun and you can get hold of it, then you reasonably pose a danger to the cop. The Second Amendment, your concealed carry permit or open carry laws in your state are not part of this analysis. They do not matter in any way.
Taking your weapon to a violent demonstration where you will be among protesters who are clashing with cops is a wildly irresponsible thing to do, because the presence of a gun changes the way the cops are going to deal with you and everyone you are with.
The Second Amendment and concealed carry permits and open carry laws in no way lessen the criminal implications of having a gun while committing a crime. The presence of the gun escalates the seriousness of the crime dramatically over what it would have been if you had committed the crime without a weapon, and it makes no difference whether you have a permit or whether you got the gun from a guy in an alley.
Direct action — impeding federal law enforcement officers in the course of their duty, helping migrants to escape from law enforcement, assaulting an officer — these are all crimes, and every one of these crimes becomes much more severe if you’re armed while you’re doing it.
Having a permit doesn’t mean it was legal for him to be carrying at the demonstration, because it is never legal to be armed while doing a crime.”
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A hallmark of the corrupt “leaders” on Minnesota had been to delete evidence, emails, paper trails, and now SignalChats which they use to collude and get around those pesky transparency laws.
This is destruction of evidence to their conspiracy, and should equal additional charges.
https://x.com/i/status/2015820103884140924
“Independent Journalist Cam Higby Reveals To Us That Left-Wing Terrorists Have RELAUNCHED New Signal Chats Targeting ICE After Others Were Deleted:
“The Signal Chats did get nuked as a result of my reporting. They completely wiped them, but they’ve restarted.””
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insurrection indeed. He needs to be in prison!
What The Governor Said
At a Sunday press event in Blaine, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz said that children in the state are hiding from immigration enforcement and compared the moment to the story of Anne Frank. He warned that someone might write a children’s book about Minnesota the way people read about Anne Frank. Walz also urged people who voted for the current administration to reconsider their support and to speak out against the actions of ICE in the state.
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Tychicus in part here is an important piece from that article
That said, because Christianity speaks to issues of due process and moral action more broadly, the Christian worldview has something to say in this moment. The deaths of Good and Pretti did not need to happen. Not because we can already conclude that law enforcement acted wrongly, but because these deaths followed from choices that placed individuals in volatile and dangerous situations. The chain of events could have been avoided. Even if an investigation were to conclude that Pretti or Good were unjustly or even illegally killed, a moral reality would still remain: They should never have been in those situations in the first place.
They chose to place themselves in what the field of ethics calls a “danger zone.” Even without adjudicating legal fault, Christian ethics can still speak to the moral wisdom—or lack thereof—of placing oneself in volatile confrontations with armed state authority. But even here, we should acknowledge another angle: Law enforcement, too, has the moral responsibility to act within the law—judiciously, proportionately, and with an eye toward minimizing harm. Responsibility is an equal offender on both sides.
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