Chaos doesn't bring hope

The ongoing tragedy here is that the white power structure likes that 800-person occupying army that lives far from the people they oppress. Republicans in the State Legislature followed Stanek's advice and gave leave to the Minneapolis police to live outside the city limits. Apparently only 5% of the force lives within the city they "protect and serve".

Reality now intrudes on that preference and we now have 500 National Guard troops protecting the Fire Department as Lake St. blazes away and protests accumulate around the country and abroad.
We also have an aberrant personality in the White House bad-mouthing the Mayor of Minneapolis and threatening to federalize the troops and their law enforcement peers.

This is beyond disgusting. Turning Minneapolis into an armed camp as a political opportunity is what now conceivably emerges and this does a grave disservice to an open wound in civil society.

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Lao Tsu has many philosophical moments to admire, but I rather like the one that states "Govern a nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it." and also "By letting it go, all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning."

Another general premise from Lao Tsu that I've long admired is the notion that one cannot rule successfully at the point of a gun. In another language, one may ask "Who guards the guards?".

Hannah Arendt is another seminal figure in philosophical thought as she deconstructs the fascist episode in 20th century Germany, leading me to notice that all the firepower in our governing institutions is not achieving success in a society that doesn't spend much time contemplating the ineffable.

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The Hennepin County Attorney is at the heart of the current problem and the longer he delays the worse the chaos will become. This isn't rocket science. This isn't even prudent jurisprudence.
When barbarians are at the gate, an aroused citizenry can come to defend themselves and that is indeed what's on the political horizon. The questions remain, to what end and with what means?

Bring that to the Republican Majority leader in the Minnesota Senate and see how that goes down.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

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Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it. Lao Tzu

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