{"id":24306,"date":"2011-11-09T06:20:52","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T12:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=24306"},"modified":"2011-11-09T15:21:49","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T21:21:49","slug":"ive-got-an-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=24306","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve Got An Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s all us conservatives run down to the &#8220;Planned Parenthood&#8221; clinic on Ford Parkway in Saint Paul, and block the door.<\/p>\n<p>And when anyone tries to come out of the building &#8211; for any reason &#8211; we&#8217;ll shove them back inside, and not let them get out. \u00a0No matter what. \u00a0Got your kids with you and need to get home? \u00a0F*** \u00a0you, you&#8217;re not leaving. \u00a0Done with work at the end of the day? \u00a0F*** you, you&#8217;re not leaving. \u00a0[1]. \u00a0And if the media asks us any questions, we&#8217;ll shout\/chant them down, and walk away howling like testosterone-sotted dogs. And if someone gets antsy and starts shoving? \u00a0We&#8217;ll shove them back, chanting and screaming!<\/p>\n<p>Would that be &#8220;non-violent?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I mean, <em>if <\/em>\u00a0I did it, which no mainstream conservative has done, or intended to do, naturally. \u00a0Other than that?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/prgkEAuSQT0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"440\" height=\"253\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Occupy?&#8221; \u00a0That&#8217;s a different kettle of organic quinoa.<\/p>\n<p>Megan McArdle notes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What&#8217;s more disturbing, however, is that my reading, and private conversations, have uncovered a number of people who think this is all right&#8211;and who consider the real outrage to be the rumor (now squashed, I believe) that an old lady was knocked down by Occupy DC protesters*.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am shocked that anyone would make this argument. This is outrageous. I don&#8217;t know any people on the left who would think that this behavior were &#8220;non-violent&#8221; if it were, say, aimed at abortion clinics. It&#8217;s bad enough that many of the occupiers seem to put as little thought as possible into the space they share with many fellow citizens. A sizeable number of them now seem to have decided that physical intimidation is a legitimate tactic with which to express their rage and frustration.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have no doubt that support for these tactics is a minority sentiment on the left. But where are the condemnations that our left-wing commentariat were so eagerly demanding from the right a year ago every time Michelle Bachmann or another tea party figure said something stupid?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No &#8220;Tea Party&#8221; rally <em>ever<\/em> did this to <em>anyone<\/em>, ever.<\/p>\n<p>Never.<\/p>\n<p>Not once. \u00a0Nothing close.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Occupy&#8221; is a movement that believes its ends justifies its means. \u00a0I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;re done with this.<\/p>\n<p>[1] It&#8217;s a <em>wonderful <\/em>day for a &#8220;Goodfellas&#8221; reference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s all us conservatives run down to the &#8220;Planned Parenthood&#8221; clinic on Ford Parkway in Saint Paul, and block the door. And when anyone tries to come out of the building &#8211; for any reason &#8211; we&#8217;ll shove them back inside, and not let them get out. \u00a0No matter what. \u00a0Got your kids with you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24306","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=24306"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24316,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24306\/revisions\/24316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}