Origins Matter

Tuesday, January 27, 2026

The narrative in Minneapolis has now laser focused on the death of Alex Pretti.  I tend to presume law enforcement acted properly until extensively proven otherwise.  I admit the video is damning, but it is also not clear exactly what was going on.  Yet everybody has made up their mind, sides are chosen – battle lines drawn.  But we are forgetting how all this started.

All of this started with organized crime.  We cannot forget that.  Italian immigrants once came to this country and established a criminal regime to feed our vices.  Now we like stories and movies of that mob, glamourizing them – making them out as heroes.  And now that most of the vices they supplied are legal, we are dealing with new mobs and new tactics.  On the one hand we have the immigrant mobs from below our southern border importing drugs.  They are violent to levels never dreamed of by the Mafia.  They are justifiably labelled “narco-terrorists,” but in the end they are organized criminals – a new mob.

But from Minnesota has emerged something new – a group of immigrants organized to defraud the government out of massive sums of money.  When investigators are done – I see RICO charges coming.  It is definitionally organized crime.

Which brings me to that which I ponder this morning.  A week ago I asserted that the protests, riots, whatever you want to call them were incited by Tim Walz to cover-up his ineptitude in enabling the organized crime mentioned in the prior paragraph.  Sunday Miranda Devine, in the pages of the New York Post took things a step further:

There is no doubt, as Trump has said, that Walz and comrades are inciting the mayhem in part to divert attention from the multibillion-dollar welfare and election fraud operation they enabled among their Somali client electorate, a scandal that forced Walz to drop his re-election bid, two days before Good was killed.

At best, Walz and his AG turned a blind eye.

At worst, they were in on it.

Which leaves me wondering if they might not also be charged under RICO.  I am no lawyer and from what I have read of the statutes it would be a stretch of the law – but maybe it is worth stretching.  At some point these action by these politicians become criminal – their incitement has produced two unnecessary deaths.  Regardless of whether those deaths are justified in the moment they are unnecessary.  No protests, no deaths.  And all of it to cover-up crime, and the role these politicians played in that crime either through intent or ineptitude.

There is also the evidence, presented yesterday, that the protesters are highly organized.  The protesters are guilty of a crime – at a minimum interfering with law enforcement in pursuit of its duty – and they are organized to do so.

Minneapolis is a large pile of garbage.  At the bottom of it is crime, organized crime.  Everything that has flowed from that organized crime shares in its guilt.  That matters, the mess notwithstanding.