by Leo Hohmann, Leo’s Newsletter:
A chilling show-your-papers society is taking shape right before our eyes, and ICE’s partnership with global data-collection firm Palantir is pushing it to the next level.
EDITOR’S NOTE: This will be one of the more controversial articles I’ve posted, given the current political atmosphere, and some of you won’t like it. It will require you to think outside of the box set up for us by the gatekeepers who control the official narratives on the left and the right. It will pose difficult questions and point out inconsistencies in the official narrative.
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In a previous article I posted on January 8, I implored my readers to keep an eye on Minnesota, that there is likely more than meets the eye going on there.
Sure enough, the situation has continued to dominate the news cycle. Standoffs between anti-ICE protesters and federal officers continue to fester and now the president has placed hundreds of U.S. Army troops on standby, ordering them to get ready to enter the fray. Those on the left respond by storming churches and other predictably irresponsible behaviors.
If the troops do swoop in, it will mark another escalation and play right into the hands of those hoping to ignite a spark that will set off America’s second civil war.
I suggested that we keep an eye on Minnesota because it’s a microcosm of the nation. Tense. Emotionally charged. Highly divided. Each side looking for a seminal moment they can use to score points with their base and parlay into a wider crisis, creating more chaos in a world desperately yearning for stability.
I am not at all sure that the optics coming out of Minnesota are as black and white as they appear to most Americans who inform themselves through the left-right paradigm, as transmitted through the lenses of Fox News, CNN, MSNBC or even most of the alternative media.
These outlets all report on events in isolation, refusing to connect dots and ask “who benefits?” from escalating the situation.
In the end, we’ll all learn the hard way that Minnesota had more to do with expanding federal power than it ever had to do with some innocent little deportation program.
When you’re dealing with these types of powers in high places, the real issue is always masked behind some other issue.
In this case the mask is immigration and Somali daycare fraud.
In the case of Iran, it’s “liberating” an oppressed people group in a distant land (if this were the case we would be invading Saudi Arabia tomorrow but we call that country our friend).
And yet, some of the very same folks who have warned us that “the issue is never the issue” are now taking the bait in Minnesota. They are taking the Trump administration’s word at face value and cheerleading what’s going on in Minnesota, all in the name of border security and public safety. And if this operation veers off in the direction I anticipate, it will forever change our country in ways my fellow conservatives will look back and say, how could we have been so blind?
It’s extremely concerning to see the level of naivety on display right now within the conservative community.
It was on display in their coverage of the situation in Iran, when they thought Trump’s intention, again taking his comments at face value, were to liberate the Iranian people and bring freedom and democracy to the Persian people.
But no matter how many times they get burned by Trump, they line up for another dose of deception. Because many of the same Trumpsters are now falling all over themselves to run cover for the questionable tactics being used by ICE.
