What follows below is an excerpt from Judd Garrett’s 1/25/26 essay ‘Epicenter of Corruption’ from the blog Objectivity is the Objective. I edited it only to fit the space allowed by the News.

‘The violent protests in Minneapolis, which have recently resulted in the shooting of two violent protesters, are designed to have protesters shot and killed by ICE agents. That is the purpose of these protests: to create such a violent, chaotic environment that people end up dead. I’m going to give the same amount of sympathy to the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti as those two gave to those hundreds of women who have been raped and murdered by criminal aliens. Renee Good and Alex Pretti were killed in the process of obstructing federal agents from removing criminal alien rapists and drug cartel members. They did not care about the trail of death left by those violent criminals who come into this country illegally. If they did, they would have been supporting ICE agents, not obstructing them.

Does anyone remember the name Justine Damond? Nobody does because nobody cared. She was a 40-year-old white Australian-born United States citizen, and on July 15, 2017, in Minneapolis, she was unarmed and fatally shot by a Somali Muslim Police Officer, Mohamed Noor, after she called 911 to report a sexual assault that was occurring behind her home in Minneapolis. When Damond approached Noor’s squad car, he fired his gun through the car window, killing her. Noor was convicted of third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in 2019, but his murder conviction was overturned by the Minnesota Supreme Court, and he was released from prison in 2022. No riots. No protests. No one cared. No one. No murals. No sections of downtown Minneapolis have been renamed in her honor.’

Mike Leow

Rogers City