If you're someone who supports the FIrst Amendment, you may have watched the attack on Cities Church in Saint Paul, Minnesota last month with concern; there is a large, loud, entitled part of our society that never learned that rights don't conflict with other rights - that if I'm exercising my First Amendment right to worship, your right to speak doesn't trump my rights, or vice versa.
And so you, like I, may have rejoiced for a brief flash last week when former CNN talking head Don Lemon, among others, was arrested for his alleged role as part of the conspiracy to attack the church.
The story of Don Lemon
— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) January 30, 2026
- He storms a Minnesota church with ICE rioters telling the preacher the have the right
- He celebrates children fleeing out the back, bragging they’re ‘uncomfortable’
- Assistant AG says she’ll arrest him for this
- AG Pam Bondi announces he’s arrested pic.twitter.com/82znZxPI7t
And it appears "conspiracy" is the word:
Not only was Don Lemon in on this, he was in communications with the church protest organizer Nakima Levy Armstrong, met them before they stormed the church & provided them coffee & donuts.
— TheRightWingM 🇺🇸 (@TheRightWingM) January 19, 2026
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You may have heard that name, Nakima Levy Armstrong, before. She's a former law school professor who's gone on to a more lucrative career organizing protests.
Meet Nekima Levy Armstrong…
— C3 (@C_3C_3) January 19, 2026
She led the group of Marxists that stormed the Church with Don Lemon.
She is a community agitator tied to Leftist orgs.
She made $170,000 at a 501(c)(3) called The Wayfinder Foundation.
Of course…
The Resistance is funded by us. Lock her up! pic.twitter.com/G7oaiKWdWl
During the post-Ferguson years, she was the prime mover behind many protests in Minneapolis and Saint Paul, including repeated blockages of freeways in the middle of both cities. These protests were carried out with the assistance of local police and the state patrol, who guided protesters to the safest way to enter the freeway to block the traffic.
Which prompted a few of us on the right to ask - what would happen if a pro-life, or tax protest, or gun rights group, of some cause that isn't favored by the Twin Cities' dominant political class, were to try something like that?
Water cannon and attack dogs. That's what'd happen.
So the local government, including law enforcement, is pretty much on the side of the "protesters". Some - the city councils, Mayor Frey, Governor Walz - make no bones about it. Others - many or most law enforcement - may be doing it because they know who signs their paychecks.
But as when Mayor Frey pulled the Minneapolis Police out of doing any security for a Trump rally in 2020, and not-so-tacitly told the insta-mob that it was open season on Trump supporters, leading to many assaults in the streets before and after the event, a conservative in a blue city might be forgiven for wondering - who are you going to call when this...
🚨JUSTICE 🚨
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) January 22, 2026
William Kelly has been ARRESTED by the FBI.
Kelly filmed himself attacking Christians in their church pews, spitting on them and threatening them because of their race and religion
You can see the terrified children in his video.
Thank you @PamBondi @AAGDhillon pic.twitter.com/lhnzpqgAl0
...comes to your church?
Law enforcement?
Here's the state's top "law enforcement" official, Attorney General Keityh Ellison, yukking it up with Lemon the week following the attack:
Statement from the Minnesota journalism community on the recent arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort: pic.twitter.com/idZ7O8UXb4
— The Minnesota Star Tribune (@StarTribune) January 30, 2026
The media? They only care about the First Amendment when it's "journalists", even if they're squashing your rights:
Statement from the Minnesota journalism community on the recent arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort: pic.twitter.com/idZ7O8UXb4
— The Minnesota Star Tribune (@StarTribune) January 30, 2026
So good news is: the Feds are picking up the slack for now in re the Cities Church fiasco.
The bad news is: they're doing it because if you live in a blue city, you are in "Animal Farm" and you are one of the animals who is less equal than others.
And the worse news is: the other side, the ones that controlled the Department of Justice for 12 of the past 17 years, will eventually get control again.
And when they do, the Don Lemons and William Kellys will regain their "urbah progressive privilege", and Abby Spanberger will be able to squash any civil rights she chooses...
🚨 JUST IN: Assistant AG Harmeet Dhillon CONFIRMS that Virginia Democrats' proposed draconian firearm ban "WILL NOT STAND"
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 26, 2026
This bill would basically BAN ALL firearm ownership — "any semi-automatic center-fire rifle or pistol that expels single or multiple projectiles," and a… pic.twitter.com/lZcGwkB6wQ
...without having to worry about Harmeet Dhillon checking her.
That's the problem with trying to share a civil society with people who only expect you to follow the rules everyone's supposed to follow for that sort of thing to work.
