<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Dear Katherine,<div><br></div><div>The witness of Minneapolis is now being discussed on Canadian social media as a guide to our future behaviour.</div><div><br></div><div>The Canadian Government has publicly ordered our Military to make preparations to defend ourselves against a US invasion. 50% of our population thinks this is a real possibility in the coming year.</div><div><br></div><div>While I see many signs of a new world order balancing American fascism and aggression, this is where we are at.</div><div><br></div><div>Love, Ken</div><div><div><br></div><div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jan 30, 2026, at 10:19 AM, Alfrieda Wilkins via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="auto"><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPad</div><div dir="ltr"><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><b>From:</b> Katherine Barton <kba.vision@gmail.com><br><b>Date:</b> January 29, 2026 at 10:45:45 AM PST<br><b>To:</b> Alfrieda Wilkins <alfriedawilkins@gmail.com><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>A post to the Order/ICA website - a favor!</b><br><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="">Hello Alfrieda,</span><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style=""><br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="">I hope you are well. I loved catching up with you recently. I have an ask.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style=""><br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style=""><b>I would like you to post the message below on the ICA/Order website /listserve today asking people to call/emal congress about the ICE budget. </b>We are beside ourselves for the reasons below - and the aftermath of the loss of two precious lives. Everything helps!!</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style=""><br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="">This is what I would like you to post:</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style=""><br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="">Hello dear members of the ICA community,</span><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4"><br></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="">Although I haven't been on this site. I have followed the lives of many of you, My time and relationships remain precious.</span>I ask you to remember the vision of the ICA of creating a community of equity and sharing<span class="gmail_default" style=""> as you read the following and hopefully take immediate action</span>. </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4"><br></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4">I live in St Paul, MN next door to Minneapolis and part of Operation Metro Surge. You have heard about it and I cannot fully convey the level of fear, anger and grief that controls the city after two deaths and the constant threats of taking people away without documentation, many of whom are citizens. </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="">Those who care in our city is spending all of or time taking people to school, buying groceries , fighting wrongful lawsuits and patrolling the streets. It has to stop. Our hope: The budget bill now being discussed could stop ICE's aggressive and violent tactics if were drastically reduced.</span><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4"><br></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style=""><b><font size="4"><u><i>My ask: Please call/email/write your Congress people TODAY and ALSO these Republicans below who have demonstrated they are interested in a change. Text is below for you to use.</i></u></font></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4"><br></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style=""><span style="font-size:large">Ted Cruz</span><br style="font-size:large"><span style="font-size:large">Lisa Murkowski</span><br style="font-size:large"><span style="font-size:large">John Curtis</span><br style="font-size:large"><span style="font-size:large">Jerry Moran</span><br style="font-size:large"><span style="font-size:large">Todd Young</span><br style="font-size:large"><span style="font-size:large">Rand Paul</span><br style="font-size:large"><span style="font-size:large">Bill Cassidy</span><br style="font-size:large"><span style="font-size:large">Tom Tillis</span><font size="4"></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4"><br></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4">I cannot thank you enough for your help. Please contact me with questions. My contact information is below.</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4"><br>With gratitude, Katherine Barton</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="">SCRIPT:</span><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><font size="4">I am a concerned
citizen of <span class="gmail_default" style="">___________. I am watching and hearing with alarm personal accounts from people l</span>iving through Operation Metro Surge<span class="gmail_default" style=""> in Minnesota. I am a registered________</span>.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><b><font size="4">We want
you to stop funding for ICE <span class="gmail_default" style="">and their aggressive actions </span>in the upcoming budget vote. <span class="gmail_default" style="">T</span>his
means separating out Dept of Homeland Security funds from the broader budget
bill<span class="gmail_default" style=""> and eliminating their violent, aggressive and unlawful behavior</span>. We are asking this because:</font></b></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 20pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><font size="4">-<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span>There are 3000 agents in our community, 25 times
more agents than the Chicago press.</font></div><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 20pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><font size="4"> </font></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 20pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><font size="4">-<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span>Statements made by Kristi Noem of Homeland
Security and Greg Bovino of Border Patrol are blatantly false as they tell
viewers to deny what they are seeing in video.</font></div><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 20pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><font size="4"> </font></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 20pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><font size="4">-<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span>Sixty per cent of those being detained are
people of color (even police officers) and are being held in horrendous
conditions, detaining them from a few hours to a few days and releasing them
without identification, phones or coats in weather often below zero.</font></div><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;line-height:115%;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><font size="4"> </font></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 20pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><font size="4">-<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span>Fourth amendment rights are being disregarded as
agents are instructed to enter homes and
cars – often violently - and take people off the street without warrants or due
cause.</font></div><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;line-height:115%;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><font size="4"> </font></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 20pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><font size="4">-<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span>In the Pretti killing on Saturday, federal
agents refused to honor the warrant from
the MN Dept of Public Safety, forcing
the filing of a a lawsuit so they wouldn’t destroy evidence.
Impartial review of murder is an ordinary, expected process.</font></div><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;line-height:115%;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><font size="4"> </font></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 20pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><font size="4">-<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span>Mpls school attendance is at 50% because
children are afraid to go to school.</font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt 0.5in; line-height: 115%; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><font size="4"> </font><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>
<span style="line-height:115%;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><font size="4">This blatant disregard for rights must stop or
we will see this kind of military action all over<span class="gmail_default" style="">. Thank you for your help and attention in this matter.</span></font></span></div><div><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style=""><br></span></font></span></div><div><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="">Signed,</span></font></span></div><div><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style=""><br></span></font></span></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><font size="4"><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br></font><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><font size="4">Katherine Barton</font></div>
<div><font size="4">Katherine Barton & Associates</font></div>
<div><font size="4">Phone: 651-247-9806</font></div>
<div><font size="4">Email: <a href="mailto:kba.vision@gmail.com" target="_blank">kba.vision@gmail.com</a></font></div>
<div><font size="4">Website: <a href="http://www.kabarton.com/" target="_blank">www.kabarton.com</a></font></div>
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