The famous quote from Upton Sinclair will always be true,
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
For just over four years, I have been engaged in the business of trying to convince a wide swath of the public of facts they would otherwise not want to believe. Some of those truths include:
- Renewable energy is more expensive, and less reliable, than conventional energy.
- There is widespread fraud in Minnesota government.
- Many illegal aliens are criminals (Minnesota Men).
Along the way, I’ve taken up the cause of Ilhan Omar and her brother-marriage. (See Scott’s post(s) below.)
In the case of Ilhan, to answer the questions PROOF? SOURCE? that are rarely posed in good faith, back in January 2024, I assembled this PDF with links to relevant items (including reporting by Scott).
In the case of Minnesota fraud, Federal prosecutor Joe Thompson has said he personally will be charging more than a $1 billion in fraud, but the total ranges into the billions, plural, more than 2. Here, from an exchange with MPR News back in September, Thompson is asked,
[Q.] How much money have taxpayers lost altogether between these different frauds?
[A.] It’s in the billions of dollars.
Billions. Plural.
But to the unconvincible, proof cannot exist or be produced. So, what would represent proof?
The latest example of truth denial comes from the Minnesota fraud/Al-Shabab angle. The proof consists of a simple logical deduction. The logical proof goes like this:
- Billions of dollars have been stolen from Minnesota taxpayers through welfare fraud (see above).
- Persons of Somali ancestry represent most of that loss.
- Somali fraudsters sent some of those proceeds to Somalia via remittances.
- Terrorist groups in Somalia extract money from those in their territory.
Therefore, Terrorist groups in Somalia were the recipients of stolen Minnesota tax dollars.
Deniers say that intent hasn’t been proven, so the chain of events never happened. Or that there are not any “peer-reviewed” academic studies of the phenomenon. No Al-Shabab terrorists have been convicted in federal court for money laundering crimes. The objections are infinite when the truth is inconvenient.
