This federal administration is an embarrassment to every dedicated civil servant who has ever tried to do good for our country. Certainly, our government has often been two-faced, and has perpetrated a host of wrongs too long to list here.

Real government employees take the guardrails on this kind of communication seriously because they remember that their duty is as public servants, not wanton warmongers advancing oligarchs' agendas.

The fact that CIVILIAN VOLUNTEERS for a city commission regularly demonstrate more rigor and sense of propriety about their operations than the SECRETARY OF DEFENSE, the VICE PRESIDENT, and others, is not only astounding but insulting.

In that time, if anyone on the commission got talking policy or planning via email, another member would invariably step up to stop the conversation, because it would be a violation of Minnesota open meeting laws, which require public business to be conducted in public, at public meetings.

I served for 1.5 years as a Commissioner for Minneapolis' Community Commission for Police Oversight.

Banana republic-style

I have done this exact thing with my local Indian spot.