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The Demons Have Taken Hold of Minneapolis | The American Spectator

On Wednesday morning, the students at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis were attending a Mass in the church next to the school when, suddenly, the stained-glass windows were shattered by a hail of gunfire.

The fusillade didn’t stop immediately. Witnesses said that between 50 and 100 bullets were pumped into the church, injuring at least 15 of the students badly enough to send them to the hospital and killing an 8-year-old and a 10-year-old.

The shooter, whose indiscriminate hosing-down of that place of worship was preceded by a very detailed video manifesto released a day earlier, then took his own life.

And the aftermath of this horror has become even more chaotic, if that’s possible, than was the horror itself.

We’ll want to keep the Minneapolis shooting in our focus, because the legacy corporate propaganda press will do everything they can to memory-hole this atrocity by the end of this week. How do we know this? Very simple.

Robert Westman, who changed his name to Robin in a signal of his trans identity, was the shooter, and the video manifesto Westman posted to YouTube made it clear that his was a specific sort of violent mental illness suffused with political ideology.

This was a repeat of the horrific Covenant school massacre in Nashville; this time it was a male pretending to be female as the perpetrator rather than the reverse as was the case in Tennessee. And as in the case of the Nashville massacre, there was a personal connection to the venue for this attacker; Westman’s mother reportedly worked at Annunciation Catholic until retiring a few years ago.

No, it doesn’t require a devotee of transgender ideology to make a mass shooter. We’ve established that those can come from several different strains of psychopathy.

But it’s becoming obvious that a very small number of people who subscribe to that ideology are committing a grossly disproportionate number of senseless mass shootings.

And Westman’s manifesto, filled with anti-Christian, anti-Israel, and anti-Trump screechings — he’d scribbled “Kill Donald Trump” in white paint on the barrel of his rifle — made him out to be a more kinetic version of the garden-variety Very Online leftist.

You want to call this maniac a societal outcast whose mind is unrecognizable to normal Americans. His actions still qualify as that, but his attitudes, sadly, are not.

Perhaps thankfully, in the wake of the Minneapolis shooting there has been something of a spike in discussion of the demonic and its increasing prevalence on the American scene. To use the term demonic is to mark oneself as a kook or a religious nut, at least in the opinions of the coastal smart set, and yet it’s a better descriptor of what is happening on the fringes than anything they can muster.

We’ve seen the demonic — whether literally, in the Christian telling, or figuratively, as a metaphor for the staggering increase in human misery and poor mental health of so many who otherwise should be living positive and productive lives — as it has advanced throughout our culture over the past decade and more. One hopes to be able to claim the fever has broken, but this week proves it has not.

It’s hardly surprising that this latest atrocity would have happened in Minneapolis. After all, the leadership of that city seems bent on leading the league in embracing the demonic and the evil when it comes to public policy, and that sowing of the wind has produced a quite predictably turbulent harvest.

Westman’s assault was the FOURTH mass shooting in Minneapolis in the space of a day.

And that there would be a trans lunatic playing out his demonic fantasies on one of the city’s churches was predictable given that Minnesota’s governor, Tim Walz, had declared the state of Minnesota a “sanctuary” for trans kids — or, more accurately, a sanctuary for deranged parents intent on sterilizing their children with “puberty blockers” and mutilating them with sex-change surgeries.

All the while laughing in the faces of regular parents and children who had opted out of the state’s poisonous public schools:

Two years before a shooter opened fire on students attending daily mass in Minneapolis, the leaders of independent and Catholic schools in Minnesota begged Democrat Governor Tim Walz for help securing their schools, according to a 2023 letter reviewed by The Daily Wire. The funding was never authorized.

In a letter dated April 14, 2023 that specifically addressed “school safety in nonpublic schools,” Tim Benz, the president of MINNDEPENDENT and Jason Adkins, the executive director of the Minnesota Catholic Conference, stressed an “urgent and critical need in Minnesota to make sure our schools are secure and safe” in light of “recent, and continuing attacks, on our schools in this country and in our state.”

The letter says there are about 72,000 students in Independent, Catholic, Jewish, Christian and Muslim nonpublic schools within the state of Minnesota. It came just weeks after the shooting at a Christian school in Tennessee, which was also carried about by a transgender-identifying individual in their twenties.

“The latest school shooting at a nonpublic Christian school in Tennessee sadly confirms what we already know – our schools are under attack,” Benz and Adkins wrote. “In Minnesota, nonpublic schools, particularly our Jewish and Muslim schools, have experienced increased levels of threats, all of which we must take very seriously.”

Walz took to social media to express his sympathy with the families of the slain and wounded. It wasn’t altogether very well received.

But his mumblings were overshadowed by the histrionics of Minneapolis’ beta-male mayor Jacob Frey, who had been in the news multiple times lately for having lost in a mini-primary for renomination by the Democrats for mayor to a Somali and then having had that vote annulled on the basis that the Somali had very likely cheated. Frey then managed to remind everyone why he has such trouble with electability:

Frey had previously echoed Walz in making Minneapolis a sanctuary for people like Westman:

And here’s what he had to say not too long ago:

Now he decries “thoughts and prayers.”

As does former Team Obama press flack and deposed MSNBC presenter Jen Psaki:

They’re actually right about this, of course. Thoughts and prayers are not sufficient as a response to what happened Wednesday morning in Minneapolis.

Something must be done about the sick, demonic ideology being pushed on children that results in a Robin Westman’s murderous anti-Christian rage. Westman’s manifesto asked the demonic question, “Where is your God now?”

Tim Walz, Jacob Frey, and Jen Psaki don’t have an answer for that.

Because they’re the people who banished God from places like Minneapolis, and policies they’ve touted for years have resulted in demons effectively ruling over those city streets.

We saw it in Minneapolis in the summer of 2020, when Walz’s deranged wife threw open the windows of the governor’s mansion in next-door St. Paul so that she could smell the tires burning as rioters destroyed swaths of the city, and we’ve seen it countless times since as blue cities have languished and declined under the weight of lawlessness, licentiousness, and abject behavioral pathology among the worst of the population.

Even the city’s NFL team is not immune. Earlier this month the Minnesota Vikings debuted a pair of flamboyantly, brazen males as dancers on its cheerleading squad, in a display so utterly out of bounds that even many members of the gay community took offense. Those criticizing the decadence of it all were set upon as bigots, but that didn’t change the fact of the cultural collapse at hand.

You don’t have to be a religious nut to see it. These places have become infected with evil. They’re run by tyrants and fools. To be a decent citizen is to have a target on your back.

They’re increasingly demonic places. And the leaders are utterly unwilling to turn them around.

This can’t go on. It must be addressed.

We need thoughts and prayers on steroids. And then we need a muscular return of the good to those city streets.

Ideally, it would mean that Annunciation Catholic Church would become an aggressive, authoritative spiritual center not just in its neighborhood but across the Twin Cities area. Less optimistically, we could use the return of institutions for the mentally deranged, and Robin Westmans of the world ought to be committed in them before they’re able to hurt innocent schoolkids.

A sane nation, much less a nation grounded in a Christian morality and committed to ordered liberty on the basis of biblical teachings, would insist on these things.

The leadership in Minneapolis and Minnesota?

I won’t go so far as to say they’re with the demons. But they certainly aren’t with the rest of us.



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