The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
"Bruce Springsteen has streets on the brain — and politics. When you mix rock and politics, you get politics. We need less of that right now."
"Do you remember when Bruce Springsteen wrote that rousing anthem to honor Laken Riley?
"Me neither.
"But on Wednesday, he released “Streets of Minneapolis,” an ode to the mob that impedes Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from enforcing federal laws passed by our representatives and as ordered to by the duly elected president of the United States. That’s another way of saying that Springsteen wrote a love song to fascists who believe that mob violence should act as a veto on the law.
“ 'Streets of Minneapolis” offers no colorful descriptions of how this law-breaking mob beat a conservative provocateur bloody, stole a thousand-dollar camera from a journalist, disrupted a church service, or repeatedly attacked ICE agents. That a video showing an armed Alex Pretti, lionized in Springsteen’s song, spitting and hurling abuse at federal agents before he kicked out their taillight, came out the same day as “Streets of Minneapolis” proves inconvenient.
"In Bruce’s sonic telling, federal ICE officers, and not Somali illegal immigrants, are “occupiers,” and federal ICE officers, and not the mob vandalizing their cars and throwing rocks at them, are the “thugs” (if the man in this video was not a thug, then who is?). Springsteen even depicts federal law enforcers as “Trump’s private army.”
"This seems like not just distortion but projection. A “private army” does exist in Minneapolis. Reports trace money from Neville Roy Singham, George Soros, and others, less known, to the groups committed to the organized chaos that helped lead to the deaths of Pretti and Rene Good, who lost her life after she hit an ICE agent with her car while attempting to flee.
"“Streets of Minneapolis” name-drops Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and “King Trump.” In characteristic leftist, cops-are-criminals, Shawshank Redemption fashion, it depicts the villains as the heroes and the heroes as the villains. The song omits that part about ICE agents heroically risking life and limb to arrest child-molester illegal aliens or Somali immigrants ripping off billions from the taxpayers. “If your skin is black or brown, my friend,” Springsteen sings. “You can be questioned or deported on sight.”
"Is this true that the federal government just randomly deports people because of their skin color?" . . . More...