{"id":60333,"date":"2016-09-19T06:00:02","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T11:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60333"},"modified":"2016-09-19T07:41:12","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T12:41:12","slug":"protest-too-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60333","title":{"rendered":"Protest Too Much"},"content":{"rendered":"

First things first: Mark Dayton is “governor” of Minnesota in exactly the same sense as Mickey Dolenz was the “drummer” in the Monkees. Tina Flint-Smith is calling all the real shots in the state. Mark Dayton is there to say stupid things and draw attention away from where the action is.<\/p>\n

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But with that said?<\/p>\n

Seriously, Governor\u00a0Flint \u2013 Smith<\/del> “Governor” Dayton?<\/p>\n

You want tolerance?<\/a><\/p>\n

Get over yourself, “governor”. If Minnesotans weren’t fundamentally tolerant, there wouldn’t be 100,000 Somalis in Minneapolis, and 20,000 in St. Cloud.<\/p>\n

And if yesterday’s attack had happened in great swathes of the rest of the world – \u00a0the Middle East, India,\u00a0the Balkans, Greece, and or dare I say Somalia itself \u2013 this ethnic and religious oriented attack would have been met by death squads roaming the streets looking for Somalis to beat, stab and shoot.<\/span><\/p>\n

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No, “governor”, the intolerant one is the one who says “go along with the program and shut up, or get out of Minnesota”. Which, if you recall \u2013 and that is by no means certain \u2013 was you, “governor”.<\/p>\n

For chrissake, just resign already.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: \u00a0Or as Walter Hudson puts it,<\/a> “If we’re going to talk about tolerance, fine. Let’s define it as — above all else — not going on a stabbing spree at the mall.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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