Checkpoints And Street-Corner Sentries: In Minneapolis, ICE-Hating Anarchists Are An Occupying Force
Breccan F. Thies
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — For a city that is persistently in the news for left-wing rioting and obstruction, it will come as no surprise that Minneapolis is overrun with political agitators who terrorize its residents.
But Minneapolis’ de facto militia occupation is not some organic outgrowth from a self-righteous people. Rather, it is a highly technical, well-strategized force that is entirely self-aware of its political power — and when, where, and how to escalate tensions or surge forces.
After walking around Minneapolis, blending in with the agitators, and talking to them for only a couple of days, it became abundantly clear that it is a city that is not entirely run by a government. Instead, social services, criminal justice, and the rest are meted out under a captivity agreement struck between elected leadership and genuine anarchists who want autonomy over the city, and ultimate power over its people.
Politics doesn’t make too strange a bedfellow here, because the anarchists and the political leadership largely agree. The government is merely a moderating force and uses that off-brand anarcho-tyranny to its political advantage when it wants to.
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