{"id":67706,"date":"2018-08-20T11:00:25","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T16:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67706"},"modified":"2018-08-19T11:23:56","modified_gmt":"2018-08-19T16:23:56","slug":"this-is-your-dfl-candidate-for-attorney-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67706","title":{"rendered":"This Is Your DFL Candidate For Attorney General"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I discussed on the show on Saturday, I believe in innocence until proven guilt, even in cases of domestic abuse.\u00a0 \u00a0We don’t, as the hysterical left is wont to say, “Believe Accusers” because of some\u00a0a priori\u00a0<\/em> conflation of assumed victimhood and virtue.<\/p>\n

We\u00a0take accusers seriously<\/em>.\u00a0 And that means accusers of either gender.\u00a0 \u00a0Women are thumpers, too.\u00a0 \u00a0Take them seriously, and find out the truth.<\/p>\n

So in the wake of the DFL Politburo<\/del> Central Committee voting 82-18% to go ahead with endorsing Ellison, I won’t be joining the horde demanding he step down from the race over the domestic abuse allegations.\u00a0 There’s\u00a0juuuuuust\u00a0<\/em>enough missing from Karen Monahan’s story to make me want to get the actual facts – preferably, to see (or have lawyers and prosecutors see) Monahan’s elusive video.<\/p>\n

Maybe it’ll be enough to convince voters that he’s not a great fit to be the state’s top law-enforcement officer.<\/p>\n

And I don’t care.\u00a0 Because for a rational person, there are plenty of other excellent reasons not to allow him within a mile of the Attorney General’s office.<\/p>\n

Gonna Dust Some Cops Off<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ellison’s history of cuddling up to cop-killers<\/a> – without a lot in the way of nuance or question – should give one pause:<\/p>\n

In September 1992 Minneapolis police officer Jerry Haaf was murdered execution-style, shot in the back as he took a coffee break at a restaurant in south Minneapolis. Police later determined that Haaf\u2019s murder was a gang hit performed by four members of the city\u2019s Vice Lords gang.The leader of the Vice Lords was Sharif Willis, a convicted murderer who had been released from prison and who sought respectability as a responsible gang leader from gullible municipal authorities while operating a gang front called United for Peace.<\/p>\n

The four Vice Lords members who murdered Haaf met and planned the murder at Willis\u2019s house. Despite the fact that two witnesses implicated Willis in the planning he was never charged because law enforcement authorities said they lacked sufficient evidence to convict him.<\/p>\n

At the time, Ellison was a Minneapolis attorney in private practice. And within a month of Haaf\u2019s murder, Ellison appeared with Willis supporting the United for Peace gang front. In October 1992, Ellison helped organize a demonstration against Minneapolis police that included United for Peace. \u201cThe main point of our rally is to support United for Peace [in its fight against] the campaign of slander the police federation has been waging,\u201d said Ellison.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the whole thing.\u00a0 Goodness knows the local media won’t be running anything of the sort.<\/p>\n

Ellison The Ideologue<\/strong><\/p>\n

Even before he became the Deputy Chair of the DNC and one of the\u00a0de facto\u00a0<\/em>leaders of the most “progressive” wing of the Democrat conference in DC, Ellison was a noted extremist.<\/p>\n

No – I mean\u00a0extremist<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n

While speaking to an atheist group in 2007, Ellison\u00a0compared the Sept. 11 attacks to the Reichstag fire<\/a>. He stopped just short of accusing then-President George W. Bush of having a hand in the attacks. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like the Reichstag fire, kind of reminds me of that,\u201d Ellison said of the terrorist attacks. \u201cAfter the Reichstag was burned, they blamed the Communists for it, and it put the leader [Hitler] of that country in a position where he could basically have authority to do whatever he wanted.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ellison went on to say he wouldn\u2019t suggest the U.S. had a hand in the attacks because \u201cyou know, that\u2019s how they put you in the nut-ball box \u2014 dismiss you,\u201d before later walking back the comments.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

About Those Jews<\/strong><\/p>\n

It was probably ten years ago, appearing on a podcast run by a local center-left pundit, that I got my only chance to actually talk with Ellison.<\/p>\n

I got one question out:\u00a0 \u00a0“Do you renounce the Hamas charter?”<\/p>\n

I was referring, of course, to the parts that call for the eradication of Israel, and the extinction of the Jewish people.<\/p>\n

Ellison’s response:\u00a0 “Do you know any Arabs?”<\/p>\n

Not sure if he was expecting me to respond “Some of my best friends are Arabs” or what – but the rest of his answer was peevish deflective baked wind, intending to turn a simple question into an ad hominem against me – for trying to get a straight answer about a record that could be charitably called corrosively antisemitic<\/a>.\u00a0 \u00a0And has been<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Domestic abuse is the least of the questions Ellison should be impelled to answer.<\/p>\n

So will anyone in the Twin Cities media bother asking?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I discussed on the show on Saturday, I believe in innocence until proven guilt, even in cases of domestic abuse.\u00a0 \u00a0We don’t, as the hysterical left is wont to say, “Believe Accusers” because of some\u00a0a priori\u00a0 conflation of assumed victimhood and virtue. We\u00a0take accusers seriously.\u00a0 And that means accusers of either gender.\u00a0 \u00a0Women are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[366,155],"tags":[252],"class_list":["post-67706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-18","category-mn-congressional","tag-ellison"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67706"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67747,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67706\/revisions\/67747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}