Checkpoint Anarchy in Minneapolis

Masked vigilantes play cop, Democrats play dumb, and everyone pretends this ends without bloodshed.

This situation in Minneapolis has all the stability of a 30-year-old bottle of nitroglycerin.

I saw the video of the anti-ICE forces setting up checkpoints and demanding identification, taking pictures of car tags, and questioning “suspicious” people they suspect are ICE officers—all while wearing masks with no other outward identification.

Weird, huh?

Hey, I’m sure they’re properly trained in the process of constitutional stops and probable cause statutes.

Right?

Imagine the contradictions running through those little pea brains as they are doing exactly what they accuse ICE of doing, except for the fact they have no legal standing or basis to do any of it.

I think this pause is just what’s not needed. This thing is silently festering like one of those videos of infected cow hooves I can’t stop watching (I’ve been around cattle all my life and had no idea they could step on so many nails, screws, and road debris and just keep going).

This little “pause” gives the “protesters”—who aren’t really protesters but paramilitary troopers—a false sense they’re winning, that they’re superior to federal and state authority. Confidence is not something you want to build in an adrenaline-pumped-up psychopath weirdo with a messiah complex installed in his 64 kilobyte brain running on a 16 MHz 8086 Intel processor from the 80’s.

Now that they have their George Floyds—Renee Good and Alex Pretti—and the backstories of each are getting told and retold until the stories don’t even resemble the lives of the actual people, the stage is set for a dose of retribution on their behalf.

We know they have firearms. Pretti had a Sig 9mm, and we’ve seen various characters walking around with AR-15s, an attitude, and poor trigger discipline. All that needs to happen now is a moron militia roadblock of a suspected ICE convoy, a tense confrontation, ICE officers out of their vehicles trying to clear the crowd, and somebody to toss a string of firecrackers into the mix.

Everybody is on edge. The entire mood is tense.

There’s a lot we need to remember from the bad old days of the Students for a Democratic Society and the Black Panthers—not the new ones who are basically the furries of the terrorist organizations, but the old school bomb builders, the cop killers and National Guard bombers, like Joanne Chesimard (aka Assata Shakur). The funny thing about Chesimard is that if she hadn’t run to Cuba, she would’ve had a great career in academia like her terrorist compatriots like Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn (step-parents of Chesa Boudin, the former DA of San Francisco), and Kathy Boudin (birth mother of Chesa Boudin), or at least had the massive fan base that Mumia Abu-Jamal has.

This truly does feel different from the ANTIFA/BLM riots, largely because those were really state and local issues, and the only reason the feds were involved was to protect federal property and personnel. Now the federal employees and officers are the targets—and the state has done so little, pandered so much, and attacked Trump so consistently, I expect we’ll see some sort of true violence, a street battle, and people will get hurt, maybe even dead.

Weirdly enough John Fetterman has been a voice of reason—unfortunately, he is pretty much alone among a cacophony of dunces blaming ICE for everything, including climate change and genital warts. An X account called Sunny tweeted: “Fetterman’s entire thing is to say ‘hey can you maybe be progressive without being a fucking psychopath?” and much of his party say that no, they can’t’.”

The Democrat politicians are the reason this whole thing is headed sideways. Walz and team are like a pack of deranged, crack-addled chihuahuas barking at Trump, the alpha Pittie.

There are only two ways this doesn’t end badly. Every day this continues, the faster the boulder rolls down the hill. There is a crazy energy growing in America, and not the good kind. I just saw a report of three college professors in Virgina calling for armed insurrection. Jerry Nadler is pre-excusing protesters for shooting ICE officers.

The best path is for Walz and Frey to get their police forces engaged to clean this up before it gets out of hand. The worst is for Trump to have to call in the military to clean it up.

But sooner or later, somebody will snap, and the choice will be made one way or the other.

When they do, nobody is going to like the outcome.