Let me define my coined term—StarTribunization: StarTribunization is a conscious, operational plot, policy, and practice by various legacy media organizations not to report the news impartially and without design, but to make the news tailored to brainwash, encourage groupthink, to saturate the public with a web of lies, 24 hours a day. These Progressives plan and plot: their hope is the public will think, spout, and obey what their elites master command, and dislike who and what this elite class hate. Lately people are starting to suspect they have long been lied to, manipulated, and told what to think. Conservative and independent Americans do not trust anything or little which the legacy media offers; lying is what communicative elites do; they feel no guilt about lying, all they care about is winning, passing their agenda, keeping power, and expanding their power. If lying serves their cause, even violating their own stated principles, well, the ends always justify the means.
The masses are expected to fall in line, and to display lockstep submission to Progressive governmental, media and education dictates; the elite is nudging the masses to embrace and live with the effects of cultural Marxism as the new American economic, cultural, and legal system.
The StarTribune is up to its navel in waging this diabolical, successful, concerted effort to deliver newspaper, radio, social media, and television to the public or the masses.
The perpetrators of this campaign of lies, omissions of facts embarrassing to their allies, and habit of overblowing the importance of facts detrimental to the character of their foes, are predictable attempters steering the public to where they want them.
The only cure, that I offer, is for the public to become individuating supercitizens. When each citizens is highly informed, an original thinker of subtle depth, complex understanding and intellectual independent-mindedness, an amateur philosopher of great depth, an advocate of healthy skepticism questioning media, the self and any statement offered by any authority figure, it is the duty of each supercitizen every time to fact-check any proposition or report against expert testimony, community standards, logical coherency, factual accuracy and one’s own common sense. With such a skeptical but open-minded public, then it will be impossible for elites to win over the public based on lies, hatred of minorities (including individuals) appeals to fear and pride, threats and deceit.
I read a StarTribune editorial on June 9th, Sunday’s paper that disgusted and outraged me. I will quote the editorial in full and then comment on it.
Here is the editorial: “A mechanical eye of speeders? Good.
Here is the question? Will knowing that they might be caught on camera persuade Minneapolis speeders to slow down?”
My response: It likely will prompt speeds to slow down if they are caught on camera speeding. I do not like camera surveillance of the public in this world where privacy has shrunk down to almost nothing.
The cure is worse than the disease in this instance. Leftists have more or less ruled America for 120 years, and there is a now alarming level of governmental intrusion into the lives of the citizens, at all levels, and Red China has shown how the use of cameras and other modern technologies can begat a totalitarian dispensation in which personal liberty and privacy are eliminated for the sake of public safety.
As a classical liberal and constitutional conservative, I do not want any traffic cameras allowed to write tickets for speeding or any other enforcement purpose, anywhere in America, ever. The Democrats, Leftists, and editors at the StarTribune argue that this terrifying erosion of civil liberties on public highways is necessary to reduce speeding and make the highways safer, and to save lives, but the unintended consequences are sinister and actual, opening the slippery slope tendency for government to use cameras and other technologies to enforce the law to direct citizens in every way. The result is tyranny, and the loss of freedom and rights for the individual. That is unacceptable and this new law must be rescinded.
The Tribune: “We’d like to think so, but we’re wary of trying to understand the minds of the most egregious speeders. Consider a few warnings, either literal or figurative, that they already ignore: the law, as expressed in posted speed limits. The risk to personal safety, vividly quantified by accident data. Risks to the safety of other drivers, covered in the same data. The disapproval of their fellow drivers who stay relatively close to the speed limit. The potential impact on their insurance rates. If none of that can get through to these scofflaws, is there reason to believe that camera-aided enforcement can do better?”
My response: I do not like egregious speeders, and if a deputy or state trooper radars and tickets them, fine. But humans must not be policed by artificial intelligence, by cameras or sky computers, drones, robot cops, ever. This violates our human rights.
My thought is that if we raised up a generation of anarchist individuating supercitizens, the rate of scofflawing—and the serious of such offending—would be rare. External, legal controls on people are for groupists: they require more laws to make them minimally behave, and, in return, paradoxically, their being controlled by laws and authorities, makes them more lawless the first chance they get to flout the rules.
If we would teach supercitizens to be their own lawmakers and law-obeyers and law-enforcers, such people of high principle might speed a little, but so much driving excess is from groupists and nonindividuators, not individualists and individuators.
If we could reach a gentleman’s agreement among individuators to not speed so excessively, then we should be able to see better road behavior and safer conditions, without resorting to camera-police.
The Tribune: “We may soon find out. A measure passed in the omnibus bill late in the legislative sessions gave authority to Minneapolis, Mendota Heights and the Minnesota Department of Transportation to use cameras as a traffic enforcement tool in a pilot program. Nearly 20 years ago after a similar program was shut down by a ruling of the Minnesota Supreme Court, drivers in those two municipalities and highway work zones will once again be confronted with the prospect of a citation if they drive 10 or more miles per hour over the speed limit. (The earlier program was found to be in conflict with state law; this one explicitly grants authority from the state. The new law also provides vehicle owners a means of declaring that they weren’t driving at the time.)”
My response: Minnesota is a Leftist stronghold, and the authoritarian lust possessing its ruling, educated elite to micromanage more and more of the affairs and private lives of the masses is a sickness corrupting the entire state. These rulers do not mean us well, and they want us under their thumb. These are wicked men and women, and sky-camera policing is their ticket to gaining complete mastery, complete subjugation of the masses. The public should be scared stiff, then outraged, and then shut them down completely legally and politically.
I was heavily involved in fighting for gun rights, and we stopped them, for the most part. It could be that the independents and RINOS gave the Democrats this camera-ticketing speeding bill as a substitute prize, because they were seeking to appease the enraged Left denied their legislative way at the Minnesota Legislature this session on expanding restrictive, unconstitutional gun control measures.
The Leftist and Democrat modus operandi, for the last 70 years, has been to pursue Marxist totalitarianism as law and public policy, but to do so a little at a time so as to take over the government and the cultural undetected, unidentified, unopposed, and thereby unstoppable. It has almost worked. Long ago our cultural Marxists realized that, if they were too militant violent, overt and revolutionary, they would lose the American middle class, and have been tossed out of office.
Instead, these revolution-by-peaceful-evolution Fabians and incrementalists, slowly but surely took over our institutions, as Chris Rufo documented. They pushed a little culturally (postmodernism) and a lot over time in small bits, legislatively, slowly growing their Progressive fascism, undetected and undeterred, until now, in 2024, they creeping revolution is almost complete.
Progressive incrementalism is not moderation—it is fanaticism and cruel, totalitarianism, legally introduced and codified a step at a time, until they get complete subjugation goals met. We in the Minnesota Gun Rights organization know how nasty, how heartless, how malevolent and how ruthless are these fanatics, so we aggressively and militantly push back and do not compromise.
Compromise is moral and honorable if the goal of the opposition is noble and sensible. To grow state power at the expense of the individual is not moderate but is hostile, bad public policy, and is totalitarian control for the people implemented in small steps so, over time, the people get used to it. But its aim is extreme and radical—all power in the hands of a few at the top.
The Progressive incrementalists can never get enough of power taken from the people. They will be back next year and the year after for more and more gains until mass lose all civil rights, all constitutional rights, all gun rights and no driving rights left.
The revolutionary team of editors of the StarTribune are angry, joyless ideologues with no happiness and no desire to leave the people alone just to live their own lives without groupists, fanatics or the government bossing them around. With this sky-camera cop proposal and legislation these editorial liars talk softly and reasonably, but they are the proverbial wolves in sheep’s clothing. Their hideous goal is so drastically extreme that opposing civil libertarians can not compromise at all with them, no compromise is to be allowed with people of this ilk, ever.
The editors at the StarTribune are old hands at this incrementalist game. They now have their foot in the door and driving liberty will be gone in 6 years as cameras spy on and ticket drivers everywhere. That is their goals and that is where we will end up; this is a bad idea that needs to be stopped now.
These elitists thugs lie all the time about everything. Their Democratic partners introduced this “innocuous” legislation, cameras as cops ticketing drivers, only to punish the most egregious offenders. Don’t believe it. They will come back again and again for stricter enforcements, hire fines, jail time and sky-cop cameras everywhere on every street and every highway ever mile across the whole state. The technology exists to put sky-camera police everywhere on roads in Minnesota--if we have the will, legal cover and budget to create the hellish scenario which they crave and seek with all their power-addicted hearts, total control of the driving public as brutal and pervasive as the Skynet totalitarian state that Red China uses to oppress, degrade and abuse its people. This is where the cultural Communists and Democrats of Minnesota are headed, and they wish none of us well.
We need to come back to the legislature in the fall of 2024, and as Republicans and independents, vote to repeal laws allowing any use of camera police to write traffic tickets for any Minnesotan anywhere. To put up sky camera police for the sake of gains in actual public traffic safety is not worth the sacrifice required, that the public live in a police state; the solution is far more dangerous than the public safety excuse of capturing selfish, dangerous speeding scofflaws, being Skynet brought to heel.
The Tribune: “Like timid swimmers easing their way into a cold lake, Minnesotans will have time to adjust gradually. First, there will be a public campaign to get drivers used to the idea. Then, first-time offenders will receive a warning letter. On their second offense, drivers will be subject to a fine—but at $40, it likely won’t hurt too badly, unless they exceed the posted limit by 20 mph. In that case, the fine jumps to $80.”
My response: Notice how slick these evil jerks are—just get the public used to camera-cops ticketing them from the sky, as the public, the herd, slowly gets accustomed to computer/robot/drone police from the sky surveilling and ticketing them.
I rarely see the editors work this hard on an editorial. That scares me. They wanted this secretly slipped in legislation into the omnibus bill real bad. They want sky camera police surveilling and ticket Minnesotans, and, cunning liars and schemers as they are, they know the sleeping, compliant, deferential public will fall for such modest initial proposals, and then incrementalism will kick in. They seek Red-Chinese sky camera police supervision of the masses, and this is their first effort headed down that slippery slope, This is dangerous, malevolent legislation by rotten bastards that seek to rule Minnesotans and Americans forever. These Progressives ideologues hate the people, and want them under their thumb and sky police are a most effective way to install the control and supervision that they seek with all their rotten hearts.
The Tribune: “That still doesn’t seem like much, considering that the fine for jaywalking in Minnesota can go as high as $100. The jaywalking statute is rarely enforced, however. And enforcement seems to be the key.”
My response: Hell, no to sky camera policing and to sky camera ticket enforcement. This is bad legislation that must be taken off the books in the fall.
The Tribune: “’The goal is to be effective at changing unsafe behavior,’ said Ethan Fawley, coordinator of the Vision Zero Program in Minneapolis, which works to reduce traffic accidents. ‘What we’ve seen from other cities is that with automated enforcement, where you have that certainty that you are going to get a citation if you are exceeding the limit by quite a bit, then you don’t need to have (the fine) at the same level’ as a citation handed out in a traffic stop. ‘There are other cities in the $40-$50 range, and I haven’t seen any evidence to suggest that those cities are any less effective in improving safety than the ones that charge significantly more.’”
My response: Never trust incrementalists: they want to get a toehold into legal deprivation enabling them to steal liberty from the masses. They want to seem reasonable and moderate, but the public must become conscious that their only motive, their end goal, is universal tyranny against the public, computer policing via automated supervision and enforcement against the masses by sky camera police. They talk safety and the public good but intentionally they want raw power and the people reduced and suppressed—that is their true and only, deliberate aim, and even it is wasn’t their end result desired—as it is—totalitarianism and degraded lives without liberty for the masses.
The Tribune: “Fawley explained to an editorial writer that ‘we don’t want to be overly punitive while pursuing the goal of changing drivers’ behavior.”
My response: That is mighty noble of Fawley not wanting to be overly punitive—at the beginning of incremental totalitarianism creeping along as sky camera cops with their automatic supervision; I say no to any of this—repeal it. We want maximum liberty, individual choice in behavior, and privacy in public spaces. We cede not one inch to automated enforcement pushed by basically evil, power-drunk elites seeking to change behavior of the masses. This is the time and the place to say no, 100%, no compromise. Just because we have the science and technology to set up a state-wide network of sky camera policing or automated enforcement does not mean the public should allow the government such unprecedented breathtaking power grabbing to surveil and police the masses on the freeways from the sky; this Orwellian possibility would in ten years be Minnesota reality. Hell, no to automated supervision of Minnesota drivers!
The Tribune: “If anything, the effort seems a bit underpunitive. Under the terms of the legislation that authorizes the pilot program, citations generated by the automated enforcement system will not become part of the driver’s record and will not affect insurance premiums. Drivers can choose to attend a safety class instead of paying the fine. A formula based on population size will limit the cameras in Minneapolis to a maximum of 42, and they will all be within blocks of schools.”
My response: Note that the Tribune editors tip their hand when they really can’t wait to make fines and tickets more punitive, which is the real and eventual goal. All these other bromides aside, we just say no—no automated enforcement on drivers from the sky in Minnesota now or ever—we citizens will not allow it, and demand that this pilot program be wiped out immediately or all dissenting politicians will be voted out of office until we get elected officials that preserve the privacy, rights, civil rights and liberties of each Minnesotan driver and citizen against any overbearing sky camera system policing us ever, not tolerated, not happening here, period.
The Tribune: “And before the first camera is placed, Fawley and his colleagues in the city government will conduct a program of public engagement to explain the system and determine the most appropriate locations for cameras. The earlies the program could begin operations is Aug. 1st, 2025.”
My response: This gives us a year to get this program gutted and eliminated in the 2024 fall legislative session.
The Tribune: “In our view, the sooner the better. Speeding was cited as a factor in two-thirds of fatal crashes in Minneapolis in 2021. We’d like to see stepped-up enforcement in more areas of the city, including the interstates, and penalties with real teeth. But as a first step, we agree with Fawley: The most important task is to change behavior.”
My response: These Marxist monsters do not even hide behind their incrementalist ploy any longer. They want sky camera policing and automated enforces on the freeways, all over the city, and soon on every county blacktop road statewide—enforcement with real teeth, all in the name of safety and changing behavior. Growing the state into authoritarian and then instantiated as a totalitarian monster actuality of enormous size, reach and grip makes people, degrades all human life.
Individuating supercitizens would be much less lawless than subjugated groupists who speed more; the anarchists individuators likely will speed rather lawfully and reasonably at not much more than 5 miles an hour over the speed limit. As we grow a generation of supercitizens, there is not need for sky camera policing to improve public safety on our streets, roads, and freeways.
These elites view this program as very promising, and, from their revolutionary point of view, it is. Minnesotans believe whatever the editors tell them for they are StarTribunized, and as good sheep, they will be grateful to be sheared further by the shepherds that run the StarTribune rag and the lives of the cowed, gullible, compliant masses.
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