{"id":3053,"date":"2008-08-13T06:11:40","date_gmt":"2008-08-13T11:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3053"},"modified":"2008-08-13T12:29:01","modified_gmt":"2008-08-13T17:29:01","slug":"glorifying-illiterate-vandalism-since-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3053","title":{"rendered":"Glorifying Illiterate Vandalism Since 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Minnesoros &#8220;Independent&#8221;<\/em> not only <a href=\"http:\/\/minnesotaindependent.com\/view\/first-big-rnc7\">glorifies vandalism<\/a>, but giggles at the creation of an atmosphere of hate!<\/p>\n<p>Somebody painted &#8220;Get Out Phascists&#8221; on the Grain Belt sign by the Hennepin Avenue bridge &#8211; one of Northeast Minneapolis&#8217; major landmarks, other than Kramaczuks, anyway.\u00a0 (G.O.P.!\u00a0 Get it?\u00a0 Hahahaha!)<\/p>\n<p>Was the <em>Mindy&#8217;s <\/em>response:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Anger at the vandalism of private property?<\/li>\n<li>Dismay at the climate of thuggish hate in which <em>some <\/em>Twin Citians are stewing against Republicans who are in town to participate in democracy, protected by the same Constitution that protects <em>their <\/em>right to print and assemble?<\/li>\n<li>A giggly, &#8220;neutral&#8221;-to-tacitly-approving piece that says &#8220;hey, it&#8217;s vandalism, but we approve without saying it in as many words&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oh, what do <em>you <\/em>think?\u00a0 Read it for yourself, and ask yourself &#8220;if someone had spraypainted DEPORT FAGS on the sign, or ABORTION IS MURDER on a Planned Parenthood clinic, would they, or any Twin Cities&#8217; lefty, be all giggly-&#8220;neutral&#8221; about this kind of thuggish vandalism?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;d almost be fun to find out, except for &#8211; I dunno &#8211; <em>the fact that I condemn crime<\/em>, even crime I (in the case of abortion, not killing gays, for the benefit of those of you who sproing convenient and loud doubts about other peoples&#8217; ethics when you get the opportunity) agree with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesoros &#8220;Independent&#8221; not only glorifies vandalism, but giggles at the creation of an atmosphere of hate! Somebody painted &#8220;Get Out Phascists&#8221; on the Grain Belt sign by the Hennepin Avenue bridge &#8211; one of Northeast Minneapolis&#8217; major landmarks, other than Kramaczuks, anyway.\u00a0 (G.O.P.!\u00a0 Get it?\u00a0 Hahahaha!) Was the Mindy&#8217;s response: Anger at the vandalism [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3053","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=3053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}