{"id":1210,"date":"2007-08-17T09:39:57","date_gmt":"2007-08-17T14:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1210"},"modified":"2007-10-05T09:36:46","modified_gmt":"2007-10-05T14:36:46","slug":"from-the-too-obvious-for-nicole-ritchie-to-miss-files-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1210","title":{"rendered":"From the &#8220;Too Obvious for Nicole Ritchie To Miss&#8221; Files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saint Paul City Council prez Dave Thune, <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.e-democracy.org\/r\/topic\/7FcpGhjGq0yJVkWdVgGTw\">writing in a Saint Paul politics email discussion forum<\/a> (emphasis added) about the city&#8217;s preparations for the 2008 Republican National Convention &#8211; specifically, the planning that&#8217;ll allow demonstrators within earshot of the convo itself:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>> We have an assembly permit ordinance but our city<br \/>\n> attorney says it would be unconstitutional if<br \/>\n> challenged. I&#8217;d like to get that out of the way<br \/>\n> before we run into trouble with it. <strong><em>it was enacted<br \/>\n> to attempt to protect <\/em><\/strong><span id=\"lw_1187360663_0\" style=\"cursor: hand; border-bottom: #0066cc 1px dashed; height: 1em\"><strong><em>planned parenthood<\/em><\/strong><\/span><strong><em> from<br \/>\n> demonstrators<\/em>.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wow.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So the Saint Paul City Council&#8230;:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Came up with a law to bar protesters from the front of the Planned Parenthood clinic on Ford Parkway, which&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;the City Attorney <em>now<\/em>, it <em>just happens, <\/em>notes is probably unconstitutional, just in time to welcome thousands of white, upper-middle-class liberal demonstrators to the city next year.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Show of hands from everyone who had that whole &#8220;constitutionality&#8221; thing figured out years ago?<\/p>\n<p>Saint Paul &#8211; where your freedom is inversely proportional to your political distance from the Gang of Four.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Before some addlepated wackjob chimes in; I fully support demonstrators&#8217; rights to protest at the convention.\u00a0 I do plan on both counterprotesting <em>and <\/em>reporting from amid the patchouli-reeking masses of BDS victims.<\/p>\n<p>I only wish the likes of Dave Thune would give people who have equally-strong beliefs about the systematic murder of the unborn (or\u00a0other beliefs that the city&#8217;s single-party majority finds <em>outre<\/em>)\u00a0the same consideration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saint Paul City Council prez Dave Thune, writing in a Saint Paul politics email discussion forum (emphasis added) about the city&#8217;s preparations for the 2008 Republican National Convention &#8211; specifically, the planning that&#8217;ll allow demonstrators within earshot of the convo itself: > We have an assembly permit ordinance but our city > attorney says it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,30,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-convention-08","category-liberty","category-st-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}