I was asked to show this movie at our County GOP headquarters. I did NOT want to watch it again - I was raised in North Minneapolis. It hit close to home for me. I showed it tonight and was shocked at the number of people that showed up and had never seen it. This is a great movie to get into everyone’s mind before November 5. The Harris/Walz ticket can NOT be allowed! It is free online at thefallofminneaplis.com - it is also free on YouTube.
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WOW. If I had seen that I wouldn't have been able to make sense of it either. We were all so naive in those days, weren't we?
Looking back, the city was steeped in Neo-Marxism. There was a huge occult (New Age) bookshop on Lake Street called "Sunsight" and later, another one called "Many Voices" opened in St Paul. There was a "white witch" called Antiga (sp?) who I think lived in Uptown who used to hold Wicca-type rituals. The area was steeped in New Age thought and New Age practices.
Remember when CAWG (Central American Working Group) held huge protests to get CIA recruitment off the U of M campus? It was in the national news. The U of M was probably the most "progressive" college in the nation at the time, or certainly near the top of the list. I went to the debate between CAWG and a guy from a conservative student group (can't remember his name) over this, and the auditorium was packed.
I knew some students whose parents were Communists. They used to go to Summer Camp at a place called Circle Pines. There was a network in place even back then. I was very close to one of the tenured professors who was a distinguished scholar - he was hounded terribly by colleagues because he spoke out against what was at the time called "PC" (political correctness). It was a glimpse of things to come, early cancel culture.
That bridge - they painted it my senior year and the fumes became terrible walking across it, I hated it after that!
I almost forgot the Jordan, MN case and Judge Kathleen Morris. And then Jacob Wetterling's disappearance. Strange place, Minnesota. So much out in the open there that I didn't understand.
I was absolutely naive. I remember the CIA recruitment protests. I remember walking past the hall where we did registration--Fraser Hall, I think--while that was going on because the protesters were blocking that road between Fraser Hall and Walter Library.
I had no idea about the occult bookshops or the "white witch" stuff. I was literally a Stranger in a Strange Land. But I lived in lots of places during and after my college years up there: St Anthony Main area, at the co-op on fraternity row for a bit, in Roseville (birthplace of Richard Dean Anderson), Uptown, East St. Paul, and then in the Lake St area just before I moved back to Illinois. I look back now and think that I was actually fortunate that I had to work so much to pay my way through college. My Mom (God bless her!) managed even in the midst of the 80s recession to pay my tuition at the U (I had in-state tuition after the first year because I had applied for it due to my boyfriend and I moving to MN to escape the economic disaster in the city we grew up in), but I paid my living expenses. So I was a full time student but working 30 hours per week too. I had no time to do anything but staying focused. In retrospect, i think that saved me from a lot of grief on multiple fronts.
I remember the Jacob Wetterling case vividly and have done a fair amount of digging on it since Q came on the scene. That case was definitely NOT what they were telling us it was.
The New Age subculture goes back decades. I did research on it years ago, but I don't have the findings at my fingertips. Here is one article I could find:
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/articles/Paganistan
Those CIA protests were in the national print news at the time - I can't remember how I knew that (possibly just from looking at the headlines from USA Today, which you could buy from a machine with coins!)
It sounds like God did protect from a lot of evil influence with your demanding work and school schedule. I was approached by cult recruiters a few times on Lake Street while waiting for the 21A, near the Town Talk Cafe (and Rainbow foods). I think there must have been a Scientology compound near there, or something similar. They were pushy, but I was able to say "no."
Jacob Wetterling - I did a bit of digging a few years back. I agree, it was definitely not what we were told.