{"id":75134,"date":"2020-08-27T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75134"},"modified":"2020-08-27T07:37:13","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T12:37:13","slug":"open-letter-to-governor-walz-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75134","title":{"rendered":"Open Letter To Governor Walz: Therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To:  Governor Walz<br>From:  Mitch Berg &#8211; Former Rock and\/or Cow, current Deplorable<br>Re: &#8220;Healing&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Governor, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last night, as yet another round of looting began over a <em>false <\/em>rumor of another police shooting, you tweeted:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Minneapolis, it\u2019s time to heal. We must rebuild and recover. Dangerous, unlawful behavior will not be tolerated. The State Patrol is headed to Minneapolis to help restore order. I remain in close contact with the city and every state resource stands ready to help bring peace.<\/p>&mdash; Governor Tim Walz (@GovTimWalz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovTimWalz\/status\/1298796374973198338?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 27, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Heal? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You don&#8217;t &#8220;heal&#8221; from cancer while your tumors are still metastatizing.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minneapolis&#8217;s disease is the long-standing tolerance of lawlessness toward political ends.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every blocked freeway.  Every <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=62648\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"62648\">&#8220;Anti&#8221;-fa outrage<\/a> given a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75014\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"75014\">faint whisper of a slap on the wrist<\/a>. Every child of the political class whose arson and looting and thuggery gets ignored.  Every &#8220;progressive&#8221; city that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=62417\">declares itself above Federal immigraiton law<\/a>. Every time you nudge and wink at progressive thugs &#8211; the spoiled, entitled, emotionally brittle, violence-prone, over-schooled \/ under-educated children of our political class (including, it might seem, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=2ahUKEwiLpqq5q7vrAhXTHM0KHTtHCA0QFjACegQIARAB&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Falphanewsmn.com%2Fgovernor-walzs-daughter-threatens-state-senator%2F&amp;usg=AOvVaw38FC1Iq_EAP3mKByW3xkyp\">daughter of a certain sitting governor<\/a>), every time you conflate &#8220;First Amendment&#8221; with &#8220;Room to Destroy&#8221;, every time you abandon parts of the city to the mob?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every time you treat minority votes as your chattel?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every time you and your party treat minority and immigrant neighborhoods as a place for people to take out their real or ginned-up frustrations with fire and baseball bats? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s the disease. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is no healing until the disease is gone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There will be no &#8220;healing&#8221; while cities like Minneapolis are nothing but Jimmy&#8217;s First Political Experiment Kit, for the political class to twirl the knobs and yank the levers and try to build a &#8220;progressive&#8221; utopia, rather than places where people live, work, and expect some level of fiscal and social return on the &#8220;investment&#8221; that is their taxes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m not going to say &#8220;progressivism is the disease&#8221;.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it&#8217;s the delivery system for everything Minneapolis needs to &#8220;heal&#8221; from. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That is all. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To: Governor WalzFrom: Mitch Berg &#8211; Former Rock and\/or Cow, current DeplorableRe: &#8220;Healing&#8221; Governor, Last night, as yet another round of looting began over a false rumor of another police shooting, you tweeted: Heal? You don&#8217;t &#8220;heal&#8221; from cancer while your tumors are still metastatizing. Minneapolis&#8217;s disease is the long-standing tolerance of lawlessness toward political [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[419,17,377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2020-riots","category-minneapolis","category-the-second-civil-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75139,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75134\/revisions\/75139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}