{"id":87736,"date":"2024-06-14T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87736"},"modified":"2024-06-13T14:39:43","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T19:39:43","slug":"the-dfl-is-minnesotas-gaslighting-abusive-spouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87736","title":{"rendered":"The DFL Is Minnesota&#8217;s Gaslighting Abusive Spouse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the immediate aftermath of declaring that realizing the non-charges against Trooper Londregan were &#8220;anti-queer&#8221; (???), Henco Attorney Mary Moriarty tells us that all that talk about crime in her jurisdiction is fearmongery:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>During a May 28 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=x0b1zw5hxLk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">event<\/a>, Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty explained she believes there\u2019s an effort to cause the public to fear crime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cModerate Democrats have done a lot of work in making people afraid of downtown Minneapolis,\u201d she said. \u201cThere is a concerted effort to make people afraid of crime.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The conversation took place between Moriarty and Dr. T. Anansi Wilson, a Mitchell Hamline School of Law <a href=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/biographies\/?person=dr-t-anansi-wilson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">professor<\/a>. The discussion centered around being \u201cgood trouble\u201d and activism.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Quick &#8211; which &#8220;protected class&#8221; suffers least from society&#8221;s alleged intesectionalities &#8211; a lesbian county attorney or a black tenured law professor?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/AlphaNewsMN\/status\/1798823259032707543\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Crime is down&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>VIolent crime?  In Minneapolis?  Not as of yesterday, it isn&#8217;t:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"680\" height=\"366\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-87737\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-3.png 680w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-3-300x161.png 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-3-500x269.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the sort of thing they talk about inside the echo chamber:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>She also <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/x0b1zw5hxLk?t=3124\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">discussed<\/a> her advice for current law students, which was to ask more questions. \u201cYou talk about the rule of law, it\u2019s like, what is that? I mean, I kind of wonder how anybody talks about the rule of law now. Wasn\u2019t Roe v. Wade rule of law? I mean, what happened to that?\u201d Moriarty said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>To the modern ultra left, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&#8220;innocent until proven guilty&#8221; is &#8220;anti-queer&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;democracy&#8221; is &#8220;getting what we want&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;rule of law&#8221; is &#8220;making <em>sure <\/em>we get what we want&#8221;. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The only upside?  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