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| This is how the left loses its brownshirts. | |
| 2021-04-20 | |
| [Pioneer Press] The Minnesota National Guard rolled into the St. Paul Labor Center on West Seventh Street on Tuesday, at least 50 uniformed soldiers and some 17 armored vehicles. The National Guard then rolled out of the Labor Center on Wednesday evening, to chants of "Don’t come back!" and "Whose house? Our house!" and "Na-na-na-na, goodbye!" shouted by a dozen or more labor advocates. The ousting took little more than an hour, and illustrated the widening gulf between the public safety measures championed by Democratic leaders such as Gov. Tim Walz, who have sworn to protect the Twin Cities from the unrest that caused upward of $700 million in damage nearly a year ago, and the civil rights concerns of social justice activists, including rank-and-file members of the labor movement. Of course, they're big on calling out the NG to "protect our sacred democratic institutions." In this case "insurrection theater" is already failing. "I was a little surprised at how fast it went," said Kieran Knutson, president of the Communications Workers of America Minneapolis Local 7250, who arrived at the St. Paul Labor Center on Wednesday evening with staffers, rank-and-file members and executive board officers from eight different labor groups.
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| Posted by:M. Murcek |
| #1 I doubt the rank and file union members agree with their leadership on this. But then again it is their leadership that wants to mistreat the people protecting them. |
| Posted by: Lord Garth 2021-04-20 15:41 |