“Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport but in earnest.” –An aphorism of Bion of Borysthenes, sometimes attributed to Plutarch

This week we have been treated to the spectacle of progressives throwing a performative tantrums more or less as an outdoor winter sport, only have it abruptly demonstrated in Minneapolis that those who are the uncooperative targets of that tantrum/demonstration/mau-mauing/thrown rocks/speeding SUVs have a genuine and well-placed fear of dying in earnest. Yeah, when the frogs are unhappy about the prospect of dying in service to someone elses’ vanity or veniality, blood gets shed for real. (I am old enough to remember that a lot of on-campus mob violence came to a screeching halt after the 1970 Kent State anti-war/anti-ROTC demonstration got out of hand, when the Ohio National Guard responded to rocks, chanted slogans and insults with live ammunition.) This has been demonstrated yet again by a pair of traveling anti-ICE female activists, for those in the audience who may be new to this unfortunate realization. We hope that other activists of the same ilk are now cognizant that what works to best effect when taunting and filming a hapless store clerk working a minimum-wage retail or fast-food job doesn’t quite play out with armed federal law enforcement personnel. One of their happy taunting crew is now pining for the fjords on a cold metal drawer in the morgue.

Too bad, so sad … from what has been said about the silly, self-anointed savior of the illegal migrants, she was supposedly well-trained by other anti-ICE activists, but what one suspects is that in reality, they and their fellow savior-of-the-illegals were being deliberately set up to be martyrs for the sacred cause, to supply the bloody shirt for future waving. I expect that whoever set this little scheme in motion is pleased as punch with the success of it. Tampon Tim Walz. Jacob Frey and other prominent local Dem powers are likely also very pleased with being able to deflect attention from the massive Somali local looting and fraud operations … although they might not be able to avoid hard questions on it for very long.

Setting up Minnesota as a sanctuary for illegal migrants to the US is a gesture, a desperate gesture. I am sure that the Minnesota Nice Dem Political Class will feel all smug and virtuous about embracing the Poor Poor Pitiful Illegal Aliens – the career gangsters, sex offenders of every degree, drug smugglers and dealers, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers and Methodists. Likely their eyes are focused on the benefits for them politically in making civic life for ordinary citizens more uncertain, dangerous, inconvenient, expensive or just plain unaffordable. It’s a benefit and job security for them – ensuring the continuing residence of a collection of violent criminals, lifetime welfare and benefits cheats, especially those who obediently vote as a block for policies that enable the criminality and the cheating to continue (as well as making life for ordinary, high-trusting, law abiding citizens miserable). The rest of us, paying the tax bills that fund all this government-funded generosity have pretty well lost patience and toleration, as I commented on another post here some weeks ago:

I suppose that the exasperating element of the big national establishment media’s instant and unquestioning sympathy for the Poor Poor Pitiful Illegal Alien is that they ARE inside a particularly insulated bubble. Likely the local media sees the carnage and tragedy very clearly – but the word has gone out, and been out for years. Poor Poor Pitiful Illegal Aliens are to be lavished with sympathy and understanding … and the ordinary citizens adversely impacted are just Stupid Bigoted Raaaaacists, who don’t deserve any consideration at all from the Great & The Good in the media and academia.
The trouble is now there are too many ordinary citizens who have been damaged and damaged badly – which damage the established media and academics steadfastly refuse to acknowledge.

So, how are feelings running now, regarding the antics of organized anti-ICE militants? Did their calculated gain-of-victim ploy change anyone’s mind about apprehension and deportation of illegal migrants, criminals and benefits cheats? Discuss as you wish and have insight.