OPINION:
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey have crossed the line of common sense by refusing to rein in their minions who just terrorized a church congregation, yelling and screaming and interrupting people’s right to pray (“Justice Department investigates ‘shameful’ anti-ICE protest that upended Minnesota church service,” Web, Jan. 19).
These despicable miscreants are guilty of breach of peace, disorderly conduct, interfering in a legal assembly, terrorizing women and children, and mocking God’s house.
There have also been reports of numerous sanctuary states in which criminals are being shielded from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who have wanted to remove them from the country or arrest them, but were denied by local law enforcement at the direction of corrupt state leaders.
Anyone with half a brain should be able to see that such people are obstructing justice, aiding, abetting and harboring criminals, and denying the dictates of “We the People” who want our country safe from murderers, rapists, drug dealers and the like.
I watched Mr. Frey, on the news, spew his criminal dictates in front of his chief of police, who stood there silent, allowing the demented idiot to violate the law.
When I was young and naive and wanted to become a law enforcement officer, I went to an oral interview with three town officials. I was asked what I would do if I found the chief of police drunk and parked on the side of the road. Believing the question to be hypothetical, I said I would take the chief home.
I learned that was the wrong answer.
The officials wanted me to say I would arrest him because even the chief of police wasn’t above the law.
The individuals who support these lawless, uninformed politicians and their dim-witted supporters are abusing their First Amendment right by crossing the line into collusion and conspiracy with criminals. That’s an arrestable offense, so Messrs. Walz and Frey should be arrested.
GREGORY J. TOPLIFF
Aiken, South Carolina
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