How a Republican Governor Laid the Foundation for Minnesota’s Criminal Syndicate — and Why Only God-Given Liberty Can Tear It Down
By Phillip C. Parrish
Candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota
Lindell-Parrish Ticket for Governor
Our Father in Heaven, our Creator, gives you power and liberty. Not the state.
Jesus Christ was not a socialist. He multiplied loaves and fishes by divine power and called men to personal repentance and charity from the heart — not to Caesar’s redistribution machine. Our faith rests on this bedrock: liberty comes from God, not government edict. The slow Christian slide into socialism, which hardens into communism, is Satan’s favorite playground. It preys on the selfish, the cynical, the lazy, and the fearful. It plants a sickness of the mind that turns the state into an idol and hands power to those who know exactly how to exploit it.
That sickness has a Minnesota birth certificate. And it was signed with a Republican pen.
The Same Day, the Same Governor, Two Consecutive Chapters
On May 25, 1967, Governor Harold LeVander approved Minnesota Session Laws Chapter 896 and Chapter 897 — back to back, same pen, same day.
Chapter 896 created the Metropolitan Council — an unelected, unaccountable regional super-government for the seven-county metro area. Seventeen members (originally structured with 15), all appointed by the governor, serving at his pleasure. It was given power to write a “comprehensive development guide,” review and suspend local plans, levy property taxes, and coordinate everything from transit and wastewater to land use and “orderly economic development.” No voters. No direct accountability. Just central planning dressed up as progress.
Chapter 897 created the Department of Human Rights as a full executive department, successor to the old commission against discrimination. It established the legal machinery to investigate, hear, and enforce claims of discrimination in employment, housing, public accommodations, and education — originally on race, color, creed, religion, and national origin. The commissioner is appointed by the governor. A board was created for appeals. Enforcement teeth were built in.
This was not organic evolution. This was deliberate architecture. One chapter for the Ministry of Central Planning. One chapter for the Ministry of Enforced Equity. Both signed the same day by a Republican governor whose law firm ties ran back to Harold Stassen’s orbit. The DFL machine did not invent the cage. They inherited it, expanded it, and perfected the looting inside it.
As a fellow Minnesotan truth-teller recently laid bare on X, this was the opening move in a long game: central planning plus identity-based enforcement, sold as compassion while building the mechanisms of control.
The Spiritual Disease Behind the Statutes
Communism is not primarily an economic theory. It is a sickness of the mind planted and cultivated by the devil himself. It exploits the deepest human fears — fear of want, fear of the stranger, fear of personal responsibility — and offers the state as the new god who will fix everything if only you surrender your liberty, your property, and your children’s future.
The anthropomorphic mindset — treating the state as if it were a benevolent person with a heart and a plan instead of a necessary evil of fallen men — comes from the twisted mind. It is the exact inversion of our founding truth: governments are instituted among men to secure the rights our Creator already gave us. When the state becomes the source and grantor of rights, the devil has won the argument without firing a shot.
Those who understand this dynamic and still use it for power and wealth are Satan’s children. They are not confused. They are not “well-intentioned.” They are operators who know fear and envy are the most reliable political fuels on earth. They build systems that reward the lazy, punish the productive, and transfer wealth upward to the connected while the middle class pays the bill and the poor stay dependent.
Evidence You Can Touch: The Met Council Machine
The Metropolitan Council is not some dusty planning board. It levies taxes on your property. It dictates regional “needs.” It awarded the contract for the Southwest Light Rail boondoggle — hundreds of millions over budget, funds obligated it didn’t have, no real contingency plan, and a Legislative Auditor report that called out the lack of transparency on exploding costs and delays.
It plans demographic shifts and development patterns while answering to the governor who appointed it, not the people who live under its rules. Farmers on the metro fringe know the reality: your land, your ability to pass it to your kids, your right to use it productively — all subject to the “guide” written by people you never elected.
This is central planning with Minnesota characteristics. And it was signed into law by a Republican.
The Human Rights Department: Equity as State-Sponsored Theft and Discrimination
What began as a prohibition on certain discriminations has metastasized into a mechanism that requires state contractors and agencies to set hiring “goals” by protected class and justify every hire outside those goals. Affirmative action certificates became gatekeeping tools. “Equity” became the polite word for taking from those who produce and giving to politically favored groups — while punishing dissent as bigotry.
In January 2026 the United States Department of Justice sued Minnesota’s “Affirmative Action Regime,” calling it what it is: a violation of equal protection. Criminal referrals have followed for the current governor and attorney general. The walls are closing on the syndicate — but the foundation was poured in 1967.
For working families: your children compete in systems rigged by design. For small business owners: jump through the hoops or lose contracts. For faithful Christians and Catholics: “human rights” enforcement has been weaponized to compel speech, punish biblical conviction on marriage and life, and protect behaviors Scripture names as sin while eroding the religious liberty our Constitution was written to secure.
Jesus welcomed sinners. He never pretended sin was a protected class or that Caesar had authority to rewrite moral reality.
The Bipartisan Rot — and the Earlier Warning from Burnquist’s Era
This was never just a DFL project. Later Republican governors expanded pieces of it — comparable worth mandates in 1982, expansions of protected classes in 1993 — and vetoed structural reforms to the Met Council that would have increased accountability. The machine has bipartisan fingerprints because both parties learned to feed at the same trough.
The pattern goes back further. During World War I, Governor J.A.A. Burnquist presided over the Minnesota Commission of Public Safety — an unelected body with sweeping powers over the economy, speech, and “loyalty.” It exploited wartime fears to target socialists, the Nonpartisan League farmers, German-Americans, and anyone deemed disloyal. Price controls, surveillance, vigilante empowerment, suppression of dissent — all justified by crisis. The state as savior and enforcer, feeding on fear.
Same script. Different decade. Manufacture or exploit fear, centralize power, crush resistance, and call it necessary progress. The 1967 chapters were simply the peacetime, bureaucratic version — sold with softer language but built for the same purpose: make the state God.
The UN/Globalist Shadow
These Minnesota innovations did not arise in isolation. They reflected and advanced post-war internationalist frameworks that shifted emphasis from God-given negative liberties (freedom from interference by others, including the state) toward positive “rights” that require constant state action, redistribution, and planning. Regional governance models and expansive human rights bureaucracies echoed global trends that treat the collective — and the administrative state managing it — as the highest authority.
It is the same anthropomorphic delusion on a larger scale: the state (or the “international community”) as wise parent rather than dangerous servant.
The Lindell-Parrish Reckoning and the Minnesota We Were Meant to Have
This is why the Lindell-Parrish ticket exists. Mike Lindell has already stared down the election rigging and fraud networks that thrive in unaccountable systems. I have spent years as a fraud whistleblower — daycare scams, COVID relief theft, deeper criminal patterns — and as a farmer, veteran, father, and Catholic who refuses to watch this state devoured from the inside.
We are not here to manage the decline or offer better slogans. We are here to dismantle the architecture of control.
The vision is simple and relatable:
• A Minnesota where your farm is your land — protected by constitutional property rights, not subject to unelected regional planners redrawing the map for “equity.”
• A Minnesota where working families keep more of what they earn because the grift machine has been starved.
• A Minnesota where veterans who fought for real liberty do not come home to bureaucratic chains and affirmative action that tells their sons and daughters they are the wrong identity.
• A Minnesota where parents raise their children in faith without state “human rights” enforcers or school bureaucrats punishing biblical truth.
• A Minnesota where the state exists to secure God-given rights — life, liberty, property — not to invent new ones that require stealing from your neighbor or compelling your speech.
• A Minnesota where producers are honored and parasites are cut off from the public vein.
This is the constitutional republic our founders understood and our Creator ordained. Not a democracy of mobs and managers. A republic where the people remain sovereign under God.
The devil’s playground is closing. The syndicate’s days of comfortable looting are numbered. The DOJ has already branded part of the machine unconstitutional. Criminal referrals are landing. The evidence is in the session laws, the auditor reports, the contract files, and the broken lives left behind.
Now we need leaders with the spine to finish the job.
Christ is King. Liberty comes from Him alone. The state is not God — and it never will be on our watch.
Join us. Stand with us. Pray with us. The 80% — the working families, farmers, veterans, and faithful — built this state. We can reclaim it.
Phillip C. Parrish
Candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota
Lindell-Parrish Ticket for Governor
Press Contact:
Phillip C. Parrish — phillip@parrish4mn.com
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Phone: (612) 460-1717
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References for the record (primary sources):
• Minnesota Session Laws 1967, Chapter 896 (Metropolitan Council) and Chapter 897 (Department of Human Rights) — revisor.mn.gov
• Metropolitan Council history and structure — metrocouncil.org
• Legislative Auditor reports on Southwest Light Rail cost and transparency failures
• U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit against Minnesota’s Affirmative Action Regime (January 2026)
• House Oversight Committee reporting on fraud costs under current administration
• Historical record of Minnesota Commission of Public Safety (WWI era) under Governor Burnquist
The documents are public. The pattern is undeniable. The time for excuses is over.