Tag: Backstrom
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Ground Stood
Citizen in Alabama shoots, kills man who was herding customers in a dollar store into a back room at gunpoint. It seems like a no-brainer, right? Man with a gun is herding innocent third parties into a back room like a bunch of cattle. Well, in Alabama it is. Alabama has a “stand your ground”…
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Dakota County: Can You Do Better?
We’ve been writing for years about Dakota County Attorney Jim Backstrom. Mostly in the context of his pattern of lying about the law – in this case, about Stand Your Ground law proposals. He’s repeatedly written op-eds about the law which completely misrepresent current and proposed law – making me wonder out loud how it…
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The Public Fraud
The First Amendment protects free speech (as well as the press, assembly, and worship provided that the subject isn’t contraception). But it has limits. Fraud is not free speech. You need to speak to commit fraud – “Hey, you have money in Nigeria, and we need $1,000 in legal fees to get it for you!”,…
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Crimes And Misdemeanors Against Fact
Yesterday, I tackled a Strib op-ed by Jim Backstrom. Backstrom, the Dakota County Attorney, wrote the latest in a long string of fact-challenged diatribes against the rights of the rigorously-law-abiding gun owner. Now, Backstrom – who is not just an elected public official, but one in charge of enforcing the law by prosecuting accused criminals…
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Jim Backstrom: Still Wrong After All These Years
Dakota County attorney Jim Backstrom has built a long career as a “tough on crime” prosecutor. Unfortunately, among Second Amendment supporters, he’s built an even bigger rep as a useful tool to the gun grabber lobby. Of course, the orcs in the gun-grabber lobby love him; he’s one few orcs in politics who can dare…
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All The Untruthiness That’s Fit To Manufacture
The Minnesota Monitor – the local George Soros joint – continues its spiral from “amateur left-leaning news blog” down to “irredeemable propaganda mill”. Last week, I busted Andy Birkey uncritically passing on talking points from Citizens for a Supine “Safer” Minnesota (not to mention Jim Backstrom’s out-and-out lies). While neither Andy Birkey nor the MNMon…
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Why Is Dakota County Attorney Jim Backstrom Lying?
There are people you expect to lie through their teeth about Second Amendment issues. Heather Martens, the president-for-life of Citizens for a Supine “Safer” Minnesota? You know she’s lying about Second Amendment issues when her lips are moving. It’s her job. No surprises there. Wes Skoglund – the former Rep from South Minneapolis who famously claimed…