The videos coming out of the Land of 10,000 Lakes are hard to stomach.

As many have noted in various forums, during the 1970s and 1980s, families could often live on a single paycheck. My father was a professor at the University of Illinois, and with his paycheck, we lived a wonderful middle-class life in the northern Chicago suburbs. Because we were not bathing in dough and air travel was still expensive, we drove everywhere. My father usually found a chemistry meeting of interest, and we would use that destination to plan our trips. I have been blessed to visit 48 states, and if I could fly a private plane tomorrow, I would go to Cody, Wyoming, to see the amazing Buffalo Bill Center and then continue to Yellowstone Park.

While in every great state, we met kind and pleasant people, Minnesota is something special. I don’t know if the people there are congenitally kind or if it’s something in the water of those 10,000 lakes advertised on the license plates. Everyone seems to be very nice. One of the most pleasant guys I met at Harvard came from the Twin Cities. Relaxed, friendly, always willing to help—I don’t think he had an enemy in the world. So when I see the violent activities directed towards ICE and other police bodies, I am stumped. How did such nice and warm people become such violent lunatics? The answer is ideology.

Mike Benz has provided numerous proofs regarding the efforts of George Soros and others to harm the United States. Tactics developed by the CIA, State Department, NED and others to be used overseas have been trained on populist movements in the West, including the MAGA movement headed by Donald Trump. And Benz has shown how the same tactics of blocking intersections, creating “martyrs”, and sowing mayhem are being used in places throughout the country—including in Minneapolis. Let’s think about this for a minute. ICE has a........

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