{"id":21696,"date":"2011-08-11T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=21696"},"modified":"2011-08-10T11:59:50","modified_gmt":"2011-08-10T16:59:50","slug":"is-this-the-mpla-or-is-this-the-uda-or-is-this-the-ira-i-thought-it-was-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=21696","title":{"rendered":"Is This The MPLA, Or Is This The UDA, Or Is This The IRA? I Thought It Was The UK…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe Doakes from Como Park writes:<\/p>\n

The BBC asks: Are brooms the sign of resistance to looters<\/a>?<\/p>\n

No, that\u2019s a sign of capitulation to looters. That\u2019s resignation that looting is inevitable and unstoppable so all we can do is clean up afterwards.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ll allow a few points for the British tradition of taciturnity and stoicism that got them through The Blitz – while averring that a foreign (would-be) invader is beyond the citizen’s control; civic violence is something that springs from one’s neighbors.<\/p>\n

Doakes:<\/p>\n

The sign of resistance to looters is this<\/a>:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Korean shopkeepers, during the 1992 LA riots. From the blog "Ask A Korean"<\/p><\/div>\n

The picture above is hotlinked from (and links to) “Ask A Korean” – a Korean immigrant who, to be fair, is pro-gun-control, and finds the image “dispiriting”.<\/p>\n

I strongly disagree, of course. The picture – Americans (of whatever ancestry) pushing back mob rule and anarchy using their God-given right to keep and bear arms is inspiring – indeed, a thing of profound, if pointed and loaded (as it were), beauty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joe Doakes from Como Park writes: The BBC asks: Are brooms the sign of resistance to looters? No, that\u2019s a sign of capitulation to looters. That\u2019s resignation that looting is inevitable and unstoppable so all we can do is clean up afterwards. I’ll allow a few points for the British tradition of taciturnity and stoicism […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,22,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gun-free-zones","category-victim-disarmament","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21696","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=21696"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21699,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21696\/revisions\/21699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}