Anti-ICE rioters storm a church in St. Paul Minnesota...

 

Cities Church in St. Paul Minnesota. Fox News.

Anti-Ice rioters have stormed a church in St. Paul Minnesota. Fox News. The protesters said that a Pastor at the church was actually an acting director of the St. Paul ICE office. However, it is unclear if the David Easterwood of ICE is the same person as the man listed as the Pastor at Cities Church. Regardless, the protesters disrupted the service under the assumption it was the same person. The action appears to be a violation of the FACE Act, which prevents disruption of worship services by protesters and is being investigated as a civil rights crime by the Department of Justice. 

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My Comment:

A good way to see if you are in a progressive bubble or not is to see if you are outraged by this case or not. If you aren't, you should wake up because the reaction to this outside of progressive bubbles is universally negative. People may or may not support protests but they aren't going to stand for Church services being disrupted. 

There's a chance that this wasn't even the right place. Nobody seems to know if the ICE David Easterwood is the same person as Pastor David Easterwood. It's pretty likely they are the same person, given that Easterwood isn't that common of a name, but it's very possible that these protesters were going up against someone that had nothing to do with ICE. And even if he is a pastor there, supposedly he wasn't even there. 

Of course, even if it is the same person, there is zero justification for this. You don't harass an ICE officer while he is just living his life. There is also zero reason for a Church to fire a pastor just because some activists, most of which probably aren't even religious, because they disapprove of his day job. Indeed, you would think they would want him to go to Church if they thought he was doing something immoral. Not that the far left's morals match up with anyone else's, but still.  

These protesters should be in some legal trouble. They could absolutely face federal charges but they might be limited to misdemeanors. Violating the FACE act can be a felony, but you usually have to issue threats or conduct violence and I didn't see that. Though they could be charged with depriving rights and that might be what the DOJ wants to do given how dimly the US government takes disrupting church services. 

I would also say that if these kinds of actions continue, people are going to get extremely tired of these activists. This wasn't the only incident of the protesters harassing totally innocent and uninvolved people. There was an incident at a restaurant where a group of engineers were falsely claimed to be ICE agents and were harassed. And I have seen more than a few videos of unhinged protesters harassing people either for wearing "patriotic" clothing or because they had delusional ideas that they were undercover ICE agents. At some point, if you are making life miserable for everyone, then everyone is going to get sick of you. 

What is so frustrating to me is that these people have no real reason to protest. Nobody should care if a bunch of illegal aliens are getting deported, that's a solution, not a problem. And it comes after one of the biggest fraud scams in American history was exposed coming from the community that is being targeted for deportation. How could anyone ever have a problem with that?