If burning down a police station isn’t “revolting against civil authority,” what is? Insurrection is defined as “an act or instance of revolting against civil authority or an established government.” Minneapolis, Minnesota, is generally considered an established government. The chairman of the state’s Democratic Party calls arson and looting acts of “pure righteousness,” because “the cops started it.” How dare they keep arresting and killing violent Black criminals?
A burning issue
Cops say they kill criminals because they are violent and dangerous. Democrats say cops kill criminals because they are Black. Cops can’t help it if a disproportionate number of violent criminals who resist arrest and shoot at police officers are Black. The cops shoot White violent criminals too, and they would shoot more, if there were more of them.
Meanwhile, residents of Minnesota have started considering vigilante justice, since the locals keep burning the place down while all the police are allowed to do are stand around and roast marshmallows.
On August 2, Devin Hogan, who serves as the official chairman of the Minneapolis Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, wrote a piece of liberal insanity he considers an “essay on Southside Pride.” The title he gave it is “The Cops Started It.” Burning down the cop shop, he writes, was a “revolutionary” moment.
The Imperial Palace still refuses to call it insurrection. Only deplorable supporters of Donald Trump can do that. “Like it or not, setting the Third Precinct on fire was a genuine revolutionary moment. An act of pure righteousness to open new worlds of understanding. The people declared themselves ungovernable and unilaterally took their power back.” Marvin Heemeyer said that too, with a bulldozer.
A “state of lawlessness or political disorder due to the absence of governmental authority” used to be called “anarchy.” Burning down police precincts was frowned on back in the good old days when America was great.
According to the state’s official top Democrat, “The enemies of this agenda, the powers that hold up white supremacy, are organized. They will no longer tolerate the great embarrassment of having lost control. They want the people to forget what it felt like to seize their power back.”
Manufacturing media consent
The whole idea behind burning down police stations is “counterinsurgency and genuine conspiracy.” They need help from the networks “manufacturing consent in the media by activating lizard brain emotions that distract from the issues.” The way Democrats see the events of the day the third precinct went up in flames, Target had the protesters wound up.
They weren’t allowed in to loot and pillage so they broke in to loot and pillage, then they torched the donut warehouse called a police station. “The Target across the street wouldn’t let protesters into the store to purchase poster board and markers to make signs. It got looted. Brand new flatscreen TVs and other detritus were used to build more barricades. At this point the world was paying attention.”
The cops started it, Hogan insists. “They killed George Floyd and took every opportunity to escalate, agitate and make things worse. The cops are rioting and the people are responding.”
Responding by burning down half the state, starting with the police station in Minneapolis they considered most offensive. “The largest international human rights movement in modern history had begun. The youth of Minneapolis carried all of this. The cops started it.”
Hogan describes himself as a “neighborhood activist with the privilege and fortune of a diverse career in public, private, and non-profit development spanning this country and the world.”
Along with endorsing the burning of police stations, he posted on Facebook, if “antiracism offends your sensibilities then please use this moment to examine the role you play in maintaining and upholding these systems. Which side are you on?” Those sides have already been chosen. Welcome to the thrilling days of yesteryear with frontier justice at the end of a rope or by whoever has the fastest draw.