Scott Zilka

[Rob Ketterling @robketterling]

Minnesota’s Somali settlement is a case of compassion without a standard. It is failing and we are at a critical moment. It is what happens when a low-education refugee population from a clan-based, low-trust society is settled in one metro, given immediate access to a generous welfare state, and told that maintaining a separate culture is the goal.

There are about 80,000 to 110,000 people, most already citizens, concentrated in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Ramsey, and St. Cloud with new enclaves and concentrations building in neighboring counties. There are too many to undo and that is not a legal option as well so let’s look for real solutions. We need to stop feeding the problem.

**What has failed**

Equal rules were dropped. Students see Somali classmates skip the punishments everyone else gets.

About 12 gangs, roughly 300 kids with an additional Halo of perhaps 1000 more young men and thousands that will not cross them. There are a known 14 homicides and 100-plus shootings in two years, plus incredible amounts of carjackings, ongoing fights and physical altercations, and mall robberies.

Welfare is the norm. About half the children in poverty, weak English after a decade, food stamps and Medicaid in most households. (79% are on some form of welfare.

Fraud used the same nonprofits that did the welcoming. Meal, autism, and housing cases were overwhelmingly this network.

No Western country with a dense Somali population has closed the gap. Sweden is worse.

** Send them back is not a real option.**

Most are US-born or naturalized. Citizens cannot be deported for failed integration.
Some are removable, non-citizens after serious convictions, status fraud, and the few thousand who never naturalized. That is a slice and not a realistic solution.

**What would work**

Same offense, same consequence in schools and courts. No racial suspension targets.

Federal gun charges, adult charging for carjacking, trespass bans, witness support.

English and work required for cash and food aid. Contract bans after fraud convictions.

Stop new placements and chain migration into Minnesota.
Deport the removable slice. Offer paid exit to anyone who will take it. Do not pretend the citizens are leaving.

Churches: quit the resettlement pipeline, back one standard, help individuals who will live by it. Stop the feel good compassion that is actually hurting not helping. In the Muslim community, Imams need to stop making an apology from leaders naming Somalis a condition for helping. They must stop defending the wrongdoing otherwise they are a veto to any progress.

Electing new leaders that will not allow the corruption to continue. Holding all of our elected leaders, principles, administrators, and religious leaders accountable. Many of our current leaders are in on the grift and cover up and it’s time for this to end. Others live in fear of retribution for breaking with the ranks.

** If there’s a model we can follow, it’s Denmark, not Sweden. **

Denmark already has done the version people called cruel: lower benefits, temporary status, breakup of the enclaves, mandatory early learning of Danish. They cut the inflow of Somalis. It did not remove the citizens. Minnesota has not done even the mild version of that. “Minnesota Nice” is the perfect environment for the problem to continue, we need to toughen up. If not, the neighborhoods and the schools are in huge trouble. It’s way past time to take this problem seriously and we need everyone to work together to turn things around in Minnesota.

[Scott Zilka @ScottZilka]

@AlphaNews When they say, “quickly reviewed”…how many minutes do you think are in a “quickly”?

[Julian Assange @ImJulianAssange]

Well this didn't age well

[Scott Zilka @ScottZilka]

@billglahn They think the “something” is your checkbook and mine.

[Scott Zilka @ScottZilka]

@billglahn Actually, I just now fed exactly 3000 hungry children for the third time today out of the back of a 1967 Chevy Nova wagon. I have all the paperwork and everything.

[Scott Zilka @ScottZilka]

@KRobbinsMN @Hennepin @wbcmpls 400 million here, 400 million there, pretty soon you’re talking about real money.

[Scott Zilka @ScottZilka]

@LouNewsMan Non answer if “responsible use” isn’t backed with actual consequences for “irresponsible use.”

[Scott Zilka @ScottZilka]

@LouNewsMan @KRobbinsMN Lou, when you ask a question to these folks via email like, “how much vetting was done before giving grant money to obvious fraudsters?”, do you ever accidentally type “how much vetting was done, you morons?”

[Scott Zilka @ScottZilka]

@KRobbinsMN With these kinds of “punishments,” the only outcomes I see are a) MORE people commit fraud or b) vigilante justice. Both would be horrible outcomes. These judges and attorneys are brewing a bad, bad pot of coffee.

[Scott Zilka @ScottZilka]

@billglahn Crime pays. That’s the moral to the story?

[Scott Zilka @ScottZilka]

@ChadHartmanShow Do the unwritten rules specify whether Jamal should have taken the 3 pointer 8 seconds before Jaden’s layup?

[Scott Zilka @ScottZilka]

@KRobbinsMN Why is she afraid? Come on, Kristin, you don’t actually believe she’s afraid. She knows that no one is going to do anything about it. Maybe find a way to ACTUALLY hold people accountable, because law abiding citizens have lost faith that there will be any real consequences.

[Scott Zilka @ScottZilka]

@redsteeze Why does anybody, anywhere listen to this guy? He’s a fool.

[Scott Zilka @ScottZilka]

@tsn_says Did anybody ask her who made the accounting error? Let’s go talk to them.

[Scott Zilka @ScottZilka]

@billglahn The easiest fix: make the judges responsible for reimbursement if a defendant flees.

[Scott Zilka @ScottZilka]

@EdwardOnWheat @barstoolsports Bro. You’re talking about one game of the major league team which currently has pissed off the vast majority of the Minnesota baseball community. There is a ton of baseball love here - I was pointing to evidence of that at another level. It’s ok that you don’t know much about MN

[Scott Zilka @ScottZilka]

@GrageDustin “Compassion.”

[Scott Zilka @ScottZilka]

@EdwardOnWheat @barstoolsports The robust Town Ball culture throughout the state would suggest you are wrong.

[Scott Zilka @ScottZilka]

@GrageDustin @WCCO what is wrong with you?

[Scott Zilka @ScottZilka]

@GrageDustin This guy’s taxes are many multiples of the taxes imposed by King George. But No Kings, he says.