Bill Glahn:
What the Star Tribune fails to note is that the state House of Representatives is locked in a 67-67 tie between Democrats and Republicans. There are several state Representatives of Somali ethnicity. Every single member of the House who is of Somali background voted against the bill and it failed on a tie vote. So, no, Somali legislators prevented it from getting done.
And:
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.
# posted by Ranger @ 12:34 PM
