Following the regrettable death of a woman who used her car to knock down an ICE agent in Minneapolis, the Minnesota governor’s remarks raise an ugly specter.
He states that the Minnesota National Guard is being trained and is being prepared to be deployed to oppose federal forces. “”I said this yesterday, we’ve never been at war with our federal government,” the governor said during a media briefing.
This implies that Minnesota now is, or soon will be, at war with the FedGov. The governor and former candidate for VPOTUS made these statements in a telling location: the Minnesota State Emergency Operations Center.
This would seem to us to be a de-facto declaration that Minnesota is leaving the Union. His remarks seem to support the profane cry of the mayor of Minneapolis, for ICE to leave the city.
Well, my oh my! We applaud this bold effort. We urge this guy to immediately convene a secession convention in St. Paul to vote on immediately leaving the Union. Or just go straight to a general referendum. The question: “Should the State of Minnesota immediately leave the United States of America? Yes or No.” Hurrah and Huzzah for the Free State of Minnesota!
True North! Land of Ten Thousand Lakes. And Ten Billion Mosquitoes. And a Hundred Billion in fraud waste and corruption!
Of course, we recognize that this will immediately create a refugee crisis on a scale far beyond the Cuban exodus after Castro’s revolution. We realize that our home State (South Dakota) is sure to suffer, together with North Dakota, Iowa, and probably Wisconsin as too many fleeing the former State will be “progressive” and Woke that will potentially damage the politics of those States. At the same time, there will be some great benefits: the Dakotas (together especially with Montana) have been treated as colonies of Minnesota (especially of Minneapolis-St. Paul) longer than they’ve been States in the Union.
We do not advocate another War Against Southern Secession (“American Civil War” to Yankee-advocates). That would be a tragedy.
Rather, we recommend that the FedGov just turn the other cheek.
Minnesota’s rulers don’t want the FedGov and its agencies (and minions) to be in Minnesota and enforcing federal law.
Fine.
DC should withdraw from Minnesota. Withdraw everything: every person, every agency, every piece of equipment, every grant, every dime!
The FedGov provides virtually all the equipment, vehicles, weapons, ammo, everything else that the Minnesota National Guard has. Both Air and Army. There are no active federal military installations or units in the State: the closest is an Air Force Reserve station at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport. Everything else is National Guard. Close them all. Move the equipment and any personnel (that can be trusted and are willing) to other States.
Withdraw all federal agencies: Rural Development, Economic Development, Forest Service, Park Service, all the alphabet agencies. Including the FBI. Using the national security clause, cancel all federal procurement contracts where the companies are headquartered in Minnesota or where products and services come from Minnesota locations. Pull back the Border Patrol, CBP, ICE, etc. to the boundaries with Wisconsin, Iowa, and the Dakotas. Since the ND and WI borders are pretty much rivers, it will be easy to set up the checkpoints.
Cancel all the federal grants and funding for child care, education and student loans. Cancel all federal funding for highways, airports, and railroads. Shut down MSHA and other agencies.
The only agency that might remain, at least until other arrangements can be made, would be the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Indian Health Service, due to treaty obligations.
Think of the billions of dollars of taxpayer money that will be saved!
Call that Phase I. Don’t invade, don’t object, don’t try to arrest Minnesota senators and Members of Congress (but send them home – Minnesota homes, that is).
Message to DC: Just let Minnesota go away on its own.
Maybe warn Canada that if Ottawa is so foolish as to try to accept Minnesota as a province or a territory, that such action will jeopardize alliances, contracts, and possibly the status of tens of thousands of Canadian-American citizens. But all things considered, I doubt that Ottawa would want Minnesota: as Regressive as the State is (thanks to the Twin Cities and maybe Duluth and Rochester), compared to Ontario, Quebec, etc. it’s a Tory (Conservative) stronghold.
And who knows? Maybe other States will follow?
The Price of Liberty 
Wow … just wow.
Why open the piece with a patently false excuse — disproven by even a cursory look at the video — for the cold-blooded murder of someone who was just trying to put some distance between herself and roving violent gang members?
That’s vile.
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The first video that was posted by most media outlets did indeed give that impression, Tom, but the other videoes make it pretty clear: she initiated the attack. Just that video gave a false impression as it did not include the first moments of the conflict. Several of us at TPOL have looked at the videos available and it is clear that it was not killing her as she fled. Did the ICE people respond inappropriately? Perhaps. But you are wrong to call it cold-blooded murder of someone seeking to escape.
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The entire issue of the morality of the ICE’s presence in Minneapolis (or anywhere else) is separate and not the point of the commentary. As we often point out, government actions that are “legal” (according to the government courts, we note) are generally not moral. Did the ICE agents’ presence and activities justify her attacking them? Many lovers of liberty will argue that is the case. If she was indeed seeking to protect other people from the aggressive and immoral actions of ICE (government goons), it may be deduced that even an act of self-defense on the part of the ICE shooter was wrong. But we cannot deduce that just from the videos.
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