Editor, Gazette-Journal:

After reading the numerous letters involving the situation in Minneapolis, Minnesota, predictably the factual evidence relating to the root cause of the matter appears to have been dismissed as irrelevant.

During the four years of the Biden administration the border remained open to all comers, including what has been proved to have been an invasion of the very worst of the criminal element. Unfortunately, many U.S. citizens have been murdered, maimed and raped by this element, to say nothing of the pedophilia element involved in this invasion. I will avoid elaborating on the infractions of fraud and theft, especially among many of the illegals as well as numerous local minorities. The welfare fraud that occurred in Minneapolis is but one example. Unfortunately, two deaths have occurred during the Minneapolis riots; however, those individuals, through their own misconduct, presented a clear and present danger to the federal agents who were in pursuit of arresting and deporting the illegal immigrant criminal element. While those deaths were unfortunate, the individuals were involved in impeding lawful arrests.

State and local governments do not have the right to impede or restrict federal law enforcement. An attempt to block federal agents in pursuit of defending the law of this nation can be taken as an act of insurrection (U.S. Code 2383). The hostile resistance against federal authorities exhibited by the Minnesota governor should have prompted an arrest by federal authorities.

In the instance of the riots in Minneapolis the federal authorities exhibited an unusual degree of restraint, likely prompted by the volatility created by not only local resistance but by numerous biased media factions. I hesitate to add, considerable foreign funding of the rioters is in evidence.

We are a nation of law. I am confident that justice will prevail, otherwise we cease to be a nation and people with a border governed by the rule of law.

It was none other than Thomas Paine in his classic work, “Common Sense,” who cited “In America the law is King.” May it always be so.

Andrew Maggard
Port Haywood, Va.