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Minnesota Not-So-Nice: Armed Security For City Council, Not Citizens

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Isn’t it weird how the city council doesn’t have to worry about self-defense, but you do?

What happens when you want to disband the police, but have no plan at all to replace them? Well, in Minneapolis what’s happening is that the city council is spending thousands of dollars in private security for three council members while the city’s citizens are left high and dry. It’s as if the city council were saying to Minneapolis business people and citizens to go ahead and arm themselves right now, because they’re on their own. The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA)’s Alan Gottlieb clarified the message today:

“What’s happening in Minneapolis is a reprehensible act of hypocrisy,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “While council members are planning a lengthy process of developing what they call a ‘new public safety model,’ what are the citizens supposed to do? They’re not getting private security protection. That’s apparently a perk only for three council members who claim to have received threats since the killing of George Floyd last month.

“Even more ironic,” he continued, “is that the council members, Andrea Jenkins, Alondra Cano and Phillipe Cunningham, have been outspoken about defunding their city’s police department. One report said this private security has already cost taxpayers $63,000. The police department is reportedly not providing security services because those resources are needed in the community.

“It’s time for Minneapolis business people and private citizens to arm themselves,” Gottlieb said, “because the city certainly won’t pay for their private security. It’s the common sense response to a city council that appears to have lost perspective, if not their collective minds.

“The death of George Floyd was a tragedy,” he added, “but working to defund and disband the police department and reinvent it with some sort of new public safety model is overkill. In the meantime, the public has a right to be safe in their homes and businesses, and they don’t have the luxury of hiring private security.

“People should put their personal safety, and the safety of their families, first,” Gottlieb said. “What they should not do is allow the city council to con them into being guinea pigs for some Utopian social reform effort. Buy a gun, learn to use it safely and competently, seek competent instruction and practice safe storage.

“Maybe members of the Minneapolis City Council should do likewise,” he concluded. “After all, it would be far less a burden on taxpayers than the $4,500 a day the city is reportedly paying for the security details.”

Isn’t it fascinating how detached from the issues of public safety one can become when one has one’s own private army? Ask any of these CEOS…or any anti-gun politician.

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  1. Don’t get rid of plan A until you have a well thought out and organized plan B. To do so invites confusion and, in thi case, disaster.

  2. We all have a front row seat for either the next civil war or the apocalypse I’m not sure which. Just need to see the four horsemen ride on by!

  3. In Camden,NJ the police dept. was so bad over 100 state police were permanently assigned to the city. Camden disbanded the police and re-formed a county wide police force. After 7 years violence has dropped and police relations with the public have improved. There are many large police depts. that may need to look at this model.. As always one should depend on oneself to protect his home and person. There are lots of first time buyers now owning guns, with no experience, hopefully they get instruction and practice. Without ,they risk their family and selves.

    • You should do a little deeper reading about Camden, NJ. While city officials claim lower crime the numbers prove otherwise. As of 2017, Camden has been labeled the most dangerous city in New Jersey. Violent crime rate is over 1900 per 100,000 while for the entire state of New Jersey it’s about 225 per 100,000. With results like that I’m not sure anyone should follow that example. Oh and basically they merged two departments (Camden City Police and County Park Police) to form Camden COUNTY Police. I couldn’t find (and admittedly didn’t look too hard) anything to indicate any changes in personnel. So for all we know, officers were city police one day and county police the next.

  4. Interestingly the MPLS police have no record of complaint regarding said threats. Go figure.

  5. What a disgusting group of people running that town. No interest or concern for it’s citizens, but by all means protect us, your fine and upstanding mayor and council.

  6. The good folks of Minneapolis should refuse to pay taxes, then the city government would be to broke to buy their personal security. Put the shoe on the other foot.

  7. I spent 12 years on my local city council, am not going to take the time to research Minneapolis code – but our code specifically stated that any change or benefit passed by the city council could not be applied to current council members. If we voted a salary raise – it did not apply to sitting members until re-election. If we did anything from change a life insurance policy to increasing travel compensation – it did not apply to sitting members. For Minn. this means if they took action that caused the town to incur addition cost to council members …. it cannot apply to anyone who voted for it. One cannot vote to defund the police and they apply that departments funds to your personal staff. Additionally, council member cannot hire security, and, they cannot spend a dime without budgetary approval from the Mayor. Most cities, if they did get Mayor approval, they cannot spend over a certain dollar amount – usually $20K to $25K without competitive bids. My guess – citizens are not doing anything legal because they don’t want their homes or business burned down by thugs.

    “The day comes you think about burying your guns – that is the day you need to be digging them up”.

  8. This city council most likely hired private security because they are afraid of the police. Everyone knows that the police are homicidal maniacs. I am getting really tired of people dumping on the police. If the council had any intestinal fortitude they would not have held the cops back but sent them in to quell the riots by any means necessary. Rioting is a violent crime. The rioters should have been treated as such.

    It is a lie that police are killing black people systematically. We need to support the police and see defunding for what it is, the repudiation of police. It will not go well in the inner cities. Many more will die as there will be no one to protect honest people from thugs with guns.

  10. Any sane person knows what Minneapolis is going to look like in a month or two. It’s a shame that the leaders of that city are not sane. Businesses pay city taxes and for that they expect to have certain services and safety from a police department is one of them. When there is no police to call in case of emergency what are the business owners pay a city tax for? I’m sure that many will pack up and leave while they still can. Once the police are gone there will be little deterrent for criminal behavior. The crime rate will sky rocket. Real estate prices will plummet and the city of Minneapolis will be nothing more than a third world city. It’s really sad that idiots can screw up a city with no consequences. If you are going to stay in the city arm up and stock up on ammo. You very well may need it.

  11. We are going to have a second civil war. If this garbage continues. I know who the enemy is hoping that you do also?

  12. IF THE CITIZENS ALLOW THESE “ELITE DICTATORS” TO USE TAXPAYER MONIES TO PAY FOR THEIR PRIVATE SECURITY AND TAKE AWAY THE PUBLIC’S LAW ENFORCEMENT THEY DESERVE WHAT THEY GET–NOTHING! REMOVE THESE EGOTISTICAL BASTARDS AND BITCHES FROM OFFICE AND PUT SOMEONE IN WHO WILL “WORK” FOR THE PEOPLE AND NOT FOR THE GREEDY LIBERAL SOCIALIST COMMUNIST LEFT.

  14. I am having a happy day because thankfully I don’t live there. But we have to be on guard everywhere against this type of thinking. Utopian Socialist programming has been a universal failure. Look at public education, housing, social work in general, mental health in general., and non-private health care services. Add many aspects of environmentalism and OSHA, the excessive automobile safety lobby, public transportation, gun control, the list is nearly endless.

  15. Gee imagine that? Protection for me but not thee. But then isn’t this how communism works? The Politburo and Oligarchy gets all the perks.

    • AMEN!!! Isn’t it a wonder that so many Americans are arming themselves to the teeth. Government officials are making sure that nothing bad happens to them or their families and screw the rest. “SHTF” soon so get ready!

      • And when a conservative shoots somebody in self defense….who do you think a liberal judge is going to find guilty? Remember, we are not supposed to defend ourselves, according to liberals. But, I guess, when things get that bad; the police will not be existing so there won’t be anybody to arrest you. It will all come down to: Who Has The Biggest Gun? or Who Has The Most Ammunition? It appears that this is what the Lie-beral DEMONocrats want ! At least, when we are starving, they will starve too. (In-between their celebrating that they brought our country down)

  16. How about this. make it a law that any politician who votes “for” ANY gun control bill or disbanding the police immediately loses their personal protection detail, is banned from hiring private security for the rest of their life, and may not use private or public funds to hire security for themselves or any of their fund raising events, They may also never own a firearm and must turn in all their current firearms if they vote to disarm the public in any way. Also make this law retroactive against all the gun grabber politicians of the past as well.

    If they hate guns so much what are they doing being protected by them, or the armed men and women who use guns to protect their hypocritical selves? If they want to disarm us, then they too should have to live under the same restrictions. Fair is fair is it not?

    • Very good point, but politicians and gun control Fanatics don’t understand that without guns you have no safety. A night stick, pepper spray and taser won’t protect you when the bad guy brings a gun!

    • DEMONocrats decide what is right and what is wrong. They disregard laws that they don’t like and somehow, they get away with it. ‘Ma Barker’ Clinton showed them how to do it and Soros has their back.

  17. Wake up AMERICA, If this goes on we will be ruled by Communists made up of all leftist Democrats. and you know who they are. Take up arm now ,It is your 2nd A amendment right, time to take back you city and help the police. These people are all crazy. Time to stop these lunatics .

  18. Hey minneapolis, no sympathy for a self inflicted wound. You elected these clowns and it’s up to you to remove ’em. I live in Minnesota and I’m glad I live 250 miles away from that cesspool.

    • Surely the people of Minneapolis have some recourse to remove these left-wing liberals from office for NOT doing the job they were elected to do. In private business it is called being FIRED! People need to take their City back! Just glad I don’t live there or in Seattle!

  19. Why should the folks of Minnesota pay for their security? If they need security then let them pay for it out of their own damn pocket, let the congress woman pay! Its her district! Maybe if she weren’t shacking up with her brother or some other married guy she would be in her own district settling the people down! Doesnt the muslim law have punishments for infidelity? Isnt it stoning the women for her misdeeds?

  20. Some kind of joke? These three are full of themselves. They are part of the RIOTERS AND LOOTING CROWDED. Under the age of 35! If they got threatened it must came from a drug dealer who wants his coke money! Paying private security 4500$ a week is more than a police officer average in a week! Some kind of STUPID PEOPLE on this city council seat! Well I guess you VOTED FOR THEM YOU GOT WHAT YOU DESERVE! A city full of junkie’s and crackheads!

  21. So true! Biden is another perfect example as well. He can sit back and say Americans don’t have a right to bear arms, while he is surrounded by Secret Service to protect him and his family! Wake up America!

  22. Guess the City Council doesn’t think mere peons need protection like they do. I think every one of the city “elite” need to be removed (recalled or voted out) of office ASAP

  23. Sounds like the voters need to get together and recall a few city council people.

  24. Only in Minnesota where they elect wrestlers, late night comedians, and out of touch idiots to office.

  25. There it is in a nutshell. Damn the citizens but I can have my armed security. More political, holier than thou B.S. Now, THAT AIN’T RIGHT…..

  26. This is progressive ideology at work. The good old Farmer Labor Party is full on Wilsonian Progressive with just a touch of Marxism. You need to know that progressives believe that your founding documents are obsolete and inappropriate to a population of publicly educated shlubs and they are imposing a new brand of authoritarianism on America as Americans sleep. They have been up to it for many, many years. Their basic premise is that 95% of the population is too stupid to be trusted with liberty and that they, the university educated, unproductive “elite” must be the people that we have all been waiting for. Minneapolis is the epicenter of this kind of thinking and the actions of the city council, or should I say Worker’s Central committee show their real beliefs and their real intent for my good relatives remaining in the Midwest. Get in line, remain silent and cough up your hard earned wages to fund their experiments in utopian projects and dare not point out reality when those same projects come crashing down. Your life and property is not worth defending. Theirs is. Very simple. This is the monster that American Progressive ideology has created and that monster has now been hijacked by real communists. Have a happy day with that one.

    • I read a reply from someone where he stated that either his dad or grandfather told him many years ago that communism would come to this country from Europe under the guise of Progressivisim. That predicition came from a WWW 2 veteran that learned this in his military service.

    • N. R. Ringlee: very good post. Remember the good old days when people desired truth?