(OPINION) Controversies Involving Governor Walz Speeches

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News events have been rich in frequency and significance, and challenging to summarize and analyze, but we shall attempt to do so here.

On the Minnesota front, Governor Walz has offered up volatile pronouncements that observers suggest his gubernatorial or presidential election ambitions or both. Leftist firebrands cheer him on thinking he has winning strategies, while his political opponents relish what they see as harbingers of electoral defeat.

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Alpha news reporter Hank Long wrote how “Jewish community leaders in Minnesota are calling on Gov. Walz to ‘walk back’ comments he made during a University of Minnesota law school commencement where he compared federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to secret police (Gestapo) in Nazi Germany.”

The Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas resented comparisons to the genocidal anti-Jewish Nazi Holocaust of World War II. The Department of Homeland Security under which the ICE agents operate, objected to the comparisons as well.

Walz then stirred up more controversy when he said on a liberal news show, according to Pam Key of Breitbart, that Trump’s alleged authoritarianism might cause him to “wear a military uniform,” an insult to that uniform that Walz himself wore during his National Guard service.

Breitbart’s Joel B. Pollak reported “Hundreds to lawyers are leaving the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division because DOJ Civil Rights chief Harmeet Dhilon encouraged them to “leave since many placed politics ahead of the function of the department.” Dhilon, a conservative California civil rights lawyer, is ending the “persecution of police departments (including the Mpls. PD) and woke ideology.”

Patricia McCarthy (American Thinker) tracked evidence and articles alleging how activist, Democrat appointed judges are trying “to stop President Trump’s attempts to do what he promised to do one elected.” McCarthy credit this “lawfare” mission to actions and intentions of President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. McCarthy concluded, “America’s once-respected institutions have been thoroughly contaminated by the Deep State.”

Mcarthy believes Trump administration leaders, Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel” will thwart the “activist, partisan judges,” but she fears “Chief Justice Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett are on the wrong side, for money or out of fear.”

Oher observers have suggested the conservative Justices are afraid because of physical and verbal threats made to them, including, some would add, threats suggested by Democrat Senator Chuck Schummer, and the demonstrators who approached their homes, with one threatened assassination, after a controversial abortion decision.

McCarthy cited the famous Justice Felix Frankfurter who served from 1939-1962, and warned, “It is hostile to a democratic system to involve the judiciary in the politics of the people.”

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