Wednesday, May 27, 2009

A fascinating story

My good friend and sometime partner-in-fun Joel Rosenberg has masterfully taken the news that the Twin Cities Metro Gang Strike Force in Minnesota has been shut down for "technical difficulties" (5-figure sums of money and thirteen seized cars going "missing" will tend to precipitate that action), summed it up in a quasi-fictional form, and then gone on to note how this latest scandal is only the latest in a line of other wacky, abusive shenanigans that the Force members and their bosses have been up to the last few years.

Some of his description of the Strike Force's affairs is a little bit inside baseball if one doesn't know all of the players involved, but the general story is easy enough to get, and it is certainly well worth the read (click the links in order).

The picture that Joel paints of the group's thuggish, bullying, disregarding of the law behavior doesn't make any of the people involved with the Force (all the way up to Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher and Minnesota Commissioner of Public Safety Michael Campion, both individuals who have tangled with the local pro-carry community in the past over their complete disregard for Minnesota law on many occasions) look very good, to say the least.

Keep on them, Joel. A little sunlight is the best thing for that corner of Minnesota law enforcement right about now.

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