{"id":2904,"date":"2008-07-21T06:25:25","date_gmt":"2008-07-21T11:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2904"},"modified":"2013-09-05T12:30:38","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T17:30:38","slug":"another-one-of-my-hypothetical-flights-of-fancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2904","title":{"rendered":"Another One Of My Hypothetical Flights of Fancy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sort of like “Secession Diaries<\/a>” and Minnesota 2050.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Really.<\/p>\n

The harassment of delegates came as organized protests continued to draw thousands of people. The Still We Rise march by advocates for social issues was peaceful, and a Poor People’s March, a column several blocks long, proceeded from the United Nations to the Madison Square Garden yesterday after the police decided to let it go ahead without a permit.<\/p>\n

When marchers approached the Garden, a police detective was knocked off his scooter. He was then repeatedly kicked and punched in the head by at least one male demonstrator, the police said.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

The heavy police presence at the Garden apparently inspired the coordinated plan by anarchists and other radicals to strike out at the delegates at their hotels, breakfasts, parties, and on the streets.<\/p>\n

The incidents are the result of months of planning by opposition groups, who report that they have obtained copies of plans and addresses for delegates’ parties, caucuses and other gatherings outside the Garden.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

OK, I’m not making it up.\u00a0 It’s what happened in 2004 in New York<\/a>.\u00a0 With all the talk about all the arrests that were dismissed over allegedly-excessive zeal on the part of the NYPD, you’d have a hard time realizing that there really was <\/em>any low-level, non-lethal (hey, the cop on the scooter lived!) domestic terrorism going on at the last RNC.<\/p>\n

The Twin Cities’ police are officially fairly sanguine; they’re taking a fairly low-key approach (which isn’t a bad thing; there’s no need to feed the anarkids’ need for drama).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Anyway, no need to worry; “Scottsdale Woman” assures us<\/a> that it’s really the GOP delgates and their sympathizers that’ll be causing the problems.<\/p>\n

More later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sort of like “Secession Diaries” and Minnesota 2050.\u00a0 Really. The harassment of delegates came as organized protests continued to draw thousands of people. The Still We Rise march by advocates for social issues was peaceful, and a Poor People’s March, a column several blocks long, proceeded from the United Nations to the Madison Square Garden […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,42,28],"tags":[261],"class_list":["post-2904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-convention-08","category-days-of-adolescent-rage","category-st-paul","tag-mn-2050"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2904","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=2904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38165,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2904\/revisions\/38165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}