THE MINNESOTA CHURCH PROTEST: ANOTHER ANGLE

         Yesterday, for a brief period of time, the biggest news-story in the United States was the Department of Justice's announcement that it had ordered a targeted round-up of independent journalists who were on-scene at a protest outside the Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota. Among those caught in the DOJ dragnet was former CNN reporter Don Lemon. Mimicking the Democrats' response to the January 6th Protests, the Woke Right is already hunting down the other protesters and magnifying the crimes committed as major offenses against the Government. 

       The story disappeared before people starting noticing these kinds of comparisons, because---as anyone who's seen today's headlines has observed---the DOJ distracted everyone with a massive dump of muh Epstein Files. The first 'news' story upon awakening this morning was the absolutely shocking and earth-shaking revelation that Bill Gates caught a sexually-transmitted disease from a prostitute two or so decades ago. 

        Of course, we can't count on today's media to focus on, say, some of the actual scandals that Gates might be involved in today; and, to be fair, the aforementioned Don Lemon has never exactly been a model of journalistic integrity. However, in this case, whatever he was doing at the Minnesota Church doesn't seem to amount to the levels of Domestic Terrorism, although according to NSPM-7, the New Right has broadened that definition considerably. Consider also that Lemon is now an 'independent journalist;' now that he's no longer (officially) part of the Corporate Media, he and others like him are expendable. 

       Both factions reporting on the protest at the church have also found it expedient---as they typically do---to leave out certain details about the protest. One would get the impression that this was a normal worship service randomly targeted by actual extremists (such as many on the 'Left' have done before). However, it may be that the protesters chose this particular church since its pastor. one David Easterwood, also holds the position of Director of ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations. In other words, the ICE thugs operating in the area are under Easterwood's direct command. 

        In other words, this was very much a politically-motivated protest and not a random attack on a church. The Director is organizationally responsible for the abuses we have seen in the Twin Cities recently. Easterwood is just as culpable for these actions as Bovino and Homan. 

       The politics obviously therefore don't end with the protests. Cities Church's founding pastor, Joe Rigny, now serves as an Associate Pastor at Doug Wilson's White Nationalist Church in Moscow, Idaho. Wilson heads a coalition of Supremacist cults, the CREC; which, in turn, is part of Peter Thiel's and JD Vance's pet project, the Rockbridge Network. 

      With these details in mind, we can see why the Administration is meeting the incident with a heavy-handed approach. The protesters should have been disciplined: possibly charged with violations of local ordinances, while Lemon was sidelined and laughed at. But, instead, we see the New Right behaving as they always do: like Reactionary Democrats. This is the January 6th witch-hunt with a Republican label. 

       Like January 6th, this move is also about suppressing dissent and intimidating opposition to the New Order. It is further evidence that America did not change course after the 2024 Elections, we merely entered into the Accelerationist Phase of the ongoing move towards Totalitarianism.