{"id":85923,"date":"2023-09-08T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85923"},"modified":"2024-06-03T12:43:11","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T17:43:11","slug":"a-conservative-is-a-liberal-whos-been-mugged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85923","title":{"rendered":"“A Conservative Is A Liberal Who\u2019s Been Mugged”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

That might not be the result of this episode – at least, I but this past Tuesday Shivanthi Sathanandan, a Minnesota state DFL executive who advocated<\/a> defunding the police gets the living crap beating out of her by carjackers<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And yep, she was<\/em> one of those <\/em>DFLers::<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In her June 2020 post, Sathanandan thanked two Minneapolis City Council members for their \u201cradical leadership\u201d in working to \u201cdismantle the Minneapolis Police Department.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are going to dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department. Say it with me,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

This past Tuesay, Sathanandan it was in her own yard when\u2026:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cFour very young men, all carrying guns, beat me violently down to the ground in front of our kids. The young men held our neighbors up at gunpoint when they ran over and tried to help me. All in broad daylight,\u201d DFL Second Vice Chair<\/a> Shivanthi Sathanandan wrote in a public Facebook post<\/a>, which included a picture of her face after the alleged assault.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLook at my face in the picture. This is the face of a mother who just had the sh$t beaten out of her. A mother whose only thought was, \u2018let me run far enough and fight hard enough so that my kids have a chance to get away.\u2019 This is the face of a mother who just listened to her four-year-old daughter screaming non-stop, her seven-year-old son wailing for someone to come help because bad guys are murdering his Mama in the backyard, her neighbors screaming in outrage \u2026 all while being beaten with guns and kicks and fists,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

It’s not Sathanandan’s job to add that if any of those neighbors had responded with the kind of force that could have ended the assault, Mary Moriarty would likely have prosecuted them far more harshly than the carjackers themselves. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But unlike some previous victms, who’ve blamed “the system” and themselves, Sathanandan reaches a rational <\/em>conclusion:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cAnd I have rage. These men knew what they were doing. I have NO DOUBT they have done this before. Yet they are still on OUR STREETS. Killing mothers. Giving babies psychological trauma that a lifetime of therapy cannot erase. With no hesitation and no remorse,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWe need to get illegal [!!! – Ed.] guns off of our streets, catch these young people who are running wild creating chaos across our city and HOLD THEM IN CUSTODY AND PROSECUTE THEM,\u201d she said. \u201cLook at my face. REMEMBER ME when you are thinking about supporting letting juveniles and young people out of custody to roam our streets instead of HOLDING THEM ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR ACTIONS.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It’s natural – and in some cases appropriate, and in Sathanandan’s case documentably<\/a> true. The DFL does in fact own the situation. And I do pile schadenfreud <\/em>on the <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I’m going to urge people to take the opportunity to see the opportunity, here. Sathanandan may never become a law-and order conservative – but Minneapolis got where it is incrementally, and any improvement will be at least as incremental. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And if you’re so inclined, pray for those kids. The fruits of the politics of the parents shouldn’<\/em>t be visited on the kids. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Much less their neighbors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

UPDATE. There is speculation that this is staged. Some are make a plausible case. The blood doesn’t look like any head laceration usually looks (and believe me, I’ve had a few), and she takes a pretty composed-looking photo for someone with a broken leg<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

OTOH: the hoax, if it is one, benefits conservatives, and even the Frey administration, against whom the Minneapolis DFL is mustering money and votes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not saying that’s <\/em>not plausible – but why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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