Dakota Beacon

The riots in Minneapolis are being orchestrated by professionals.  This is not a protest against police abuse of a man, this is street warfare which was ready to jump into action the moment there was an excuse.  Unfortunately a stupid, ugly act by a police officer gave these terrorists - for that is what they are - the match with which to ignite the violence.  

The murder of George Floyd was an abuse of power and the act of rogue police officers - men who would have been fired long ago by a competent city government, but then, how long has it been since Minneapolis has had that?  The man who shot and killed Justine Damond, the Australian woman who had called 911 when one night she heard screams and thought that someone was being attacked a few houses away from hers, was the “pride of Minneapolis”, a foreigner who had been hired because he was a Somali-born immigrant, with no more qualification than that and already had compiled a record of abuse of his position.  It seems that some work is needed in the selection and training and managing of the police in Minneapolis.

The important thing to understand about these terrorist events taking place in Minneapolis is that it is not a group of local people protesting in earnest about a horrible miscarriage of law in the abusive treatment of a man who gave no excuse for violent restraint of any kind.  It is about an organized terrorist organization which has tentacles in nearly every city of any size in America.  In fact, as this is written, terrorism is ongoing in Oakland, in Phoenix, in Atlanta, in Houston, in New York, in Louisville, in Columbus, Ohio, in Los Angeles as well as Minneapolis.  There is a reason for this - it is happening not because a man died but because the idiot who killed him simply hit the start button.  

There are, of course, people whose conscience called them to demonstrate peacefully - it is necessary that we have this right.  But before we do, we need to understand that this right is now being infringed by the terrorists to whom we give cover when we do.  A lawful, innocent and proper demonstration against a wrong is now being used by others - people who never knew the man, who don’t live in the community, who have nothing to do with the government or the police or the minorities within the community.  They are paid professionals.  We have seen them before.  The same source will spew forth another force to add to the hell - Governor Walz has alluded to this already - so-called “white supremacists” are on their way to get in on the rioting.  Make no mistake.  They, too, will be paid professionals.  I have been around a very long time myself.  I have never met a “white supremacist”.  Maybe you have.   You will see a clash between these two phony armies of terrorists.  

In the meantime you will hear many “spokesmen” and “spokeswomen” of minorities, in this case likely black, who will take advantage of the cameras to get their two cents’ worth in, making believe that the terrorism is “protest”, that it is about “pain”.  It is not.  The original citizens who gathered to protest were speaking from the heart.  They had the right to do this.  We are free to assemble and to speak freely.  We are not free to smash windows, burn down buildings, create mayhem, loot and steal, stop trucks and rob them.  There are two kinds of people here - the local citizens who were rightly angry about an incident involving some apparently very bad cops (one of whom has now been charged with murder), and other people who care nothing about police abuse except for the excuse it gives for staging riots, people who do not live in the place they are destroying, who, when their work is done will move on to another community and wait there for a chance to loot, riot and burn it down.  In every case they move on and leave their victims, the minority communities usually, to live in a charred crater of a neighborhood, having lost their local businesses, their parks, their shops and cafes and their peace.  We must above all, recognize who and what they are.  

What should we do about it?  Well, first, throw out every cop who generates a third complaint, screen them better before they are hired, train them better and let them know this kind of behavior will never be tolerated. Sadly, the police forces will never change unless the people require them to do so.  There is a place for “people power” in this - perhaps organizing groups to investigate the police departments’ policies, how they treat complaints, like an advisory committee to counsel the mayor and city council.  In the immediate moment we should let the people in the neighborhoods know (in case there is anyone there who doesn’t already know) that there will be people from out of town who are coming to destroy their homes and their neighborhoods.  Once this begins to happen local people should distance themselves from it, go home, go inside, or to a safe place if their home is not safe, and the looters and rioters should be put on notice in no uncertain terms that they will be shot if they do these things.  There just is no other way.  Standing down and turning the precinct headquarters over to them to burn to the ground is not a winning strategy.  Instead, the lovely mayor, Jakob Frey, cautioned terrorists, vandals, arsonists and looters that they should keep social distancing and wear masks. In fact, he advised them that the city was providing them free of charge.  Just pick one up on your way to commit arson.   I’m not kidding.  Should we be at all surprised at the outcome?  .

America is at war.  The sooner we understand this the better.  People who want to honor the man who died or make a statement about the behavior which led to it should learn to write letters, to speak peacefully in some other context than an outdoor protest.  Maybe they should even consider running for office themselves.  While the protest began lawfully it was taken over and subsumed into a non-locally fuelled riot.  The people who are setting fires and looting do not care about either the neighborhood or Mr. Floyd.  The innocent people should go home and get off the streets.  The ones remaining need to know they will be met with adequate force to stop them in their tracks - whatever that takes.  What is the alternative?  Making way for Molotiv cocktails?

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