The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant. - Maximilien Robespierre.

Monday, February 02, 2026

The Minnesota Riots Are Part Of A Bigger Picture


What is the big deal about Minnesota that has kept the US state, just one of 50, that has kept it at the forefront of world news for most of this month. The killing by Immigration Officers of two protesters who were trying to disrupt the agencies efforts to arrest, for deportation, illegal immigrants were stories that might by themselves have attracted attention for a day or two (no disrespect to the victims but there are killings everywhere, every day).

But there is nore to the situation in Minnesota that these fatal attempts by 'woke' liberals to potect illegal immigrants from the law. Sensationalist news coverage of ICE activitie is only concealing the real problem.

Minnesota has been shaken by an organised fraud scandal that prosecutors estimate has already cost the stte government more than $1bn (£730m) in misappropriated funds, including cash that was meant to help the hungry or educate kids from families who cannot speak English.. According to The New York Times (NYT) – not generally known for conservative political leanings – out of 86 people charged by agents investigating the fraud network, all but eight were Somali (and the majority of them in the USA legally); a lawyer for defendants insists her clients thought the fraud was being tolerated; and the state was threatened with accusations of racism if it didn’t sign the cheques. 

Other states in the US hve problems related to mass immigration and illegal immigration so what is special about this case?  Minnesota, it seems, has a particular problem with Somali Nationals, for reasons unexplained there are absolutely huge Somali immigrant communities in the state's cities and big towns. They elected a Somali congress woman who spends most of her time trying to subvert the rile of law and calling white people 'racist.' 

The State Governor Tim Waltz, remember him  - the Vive Presidential candidate in Kamala Harris' ill fated election campaign, declared Minnesota a 'Sanctuary State', i.e. the state government undertook to protect illegals within its borders from efforts to remove them.. Evidence shows Tim is not the sharpest knife in the box and during his tome as State Governor the immigrants and their virtue signalling leftist enablers have run rings round him.. 

As long ago as the 1990s, after an influx of refugees from civil war, Somali’s were granted Temporary Protected Status due to their own country being unsafe for their return. They brought families and family members brought their families and so on, African extended families extend infinitely. 

The organised fraud that has now come to light because of the investigative journalism of a single YouTuber named Nick Shirley is centred on Somali communities, is staggering in scale and was allowed to happen under the Biden administration. Trump has recently removed Temp Protected Status, we believe. 

 The authorities in Minnesota have let in people who had no right to enter the USA and have badly abused their host nation and its people. Those who do not have a legal right to be in the USA were given chance to leave voluntarily. When they declined and left wing activists launched a campaign to stop deportations, the Trump administration. ordered a crackdown on illegals and, being a rare president of his word, Trump set a  target of 3,000 arrests a day.  The Immigration and Customes Enforcement (ICE) recruited more than 12,000  agents to meet it.

ICE is enforcing laws that already exist, and two-thirds of those arrested have been previously imprisoned or charged, 7 per cent of them for violence. 

 ICE are having to act this way due to the attacks on them and their families. The 'peaceful' protestors are taking lethal weapons to their 'peaceful' protests and have obtained personal information for ICE agents and threatened their families.  If you go to a protest with weapons, your intentions can only be read one way. ICE are having to act this way due to the attacks on them and their families. If you go to a protest with weapons, your intentions can only be read one way.

The  situation in Minnesota is a local one, but the challenge of dealing with the problems caused by illegal mass immigration - resulting in an influx of people who are not interested in assimilating - is apparent across the USA and in Europe and Australia. This unwillingness to integrate of immigrants from tribal societies with very different moral values in turn leads to culture clashes. Matters have been aggravated by the criminal element associated with some of the groups coming in. 

The UK is suffering from a similar challenge from illigal immigration as is Spain which we reported on recently. In my mind, there can be no doubt Trump is right to want to deport the criminals and those ethnic groups that seek to impose their values on the host nation. In all processes there will be unfortunate instances. I feel sorry for the families of the people who were shot. But I also feel sorry for those in the USA who have been robbed, injured, raped and forced out of certain areas by these aggressive immigrants. So on balance I would support mass deportations, as at least that enables the host nation to settle down and reassert its identity and rules. Immigration is something that can happen, but it needs to be managed - which is not what has been happening at all.

We either defend Western Civilisation or we don’t. The rule of law, tolerance, free speech, freedom of religion etc or balkanised anarchy where might is right. The cost is unavoidable if you want the former not the latter. Sheep always want the easy life to avoid confrontation at all costs. Only sheep dogs will keep the wolves at bay. The sheep dogs are on the political right.  

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