The local leftysphere is running itself ragged trying to spin the “anarchist” raids over the weekend.<\/p>\n
Charlie Quimby echoes the complaints<\/a> of many leftybloggers in reaction to the left’s lawyers’ spin about, among other things, the buckets of urine:<\/p>\n But then, sometimes a bucket of urine is just a bucket of urine.<\/p>\n Not everyone in America lives with two-and-half baths or maintains their houses to Martha Stewart standards. That may make them a civil nuisance, but it doesn’t make them criminals.<\/p>\n In an atypical <\/em>house, such as one being used as a crash pad for large numbers of youngsters who lean toward the permacultural<\/a> persuasion, there’s a better explanation than stockpiling material for urine bomb<\/a>s.<\/p>\n The practice might appear far fetched to average suburbanites…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n …as well as to this Saint Paul guy, who’s managed to find a way to dispose of <\/em>urine – pretty much always in a toilet.<\/p>\n Quimby’s point – that many homeowners might have some of the shopping list of “weird” items in their homes. Yesterday, I took a sarcastic stab at the list. Today, let’s do a real comparative inventory:<\/p>\n Let’s establish this; I know nothing <\/em>about the specifics of this case. I would never rule out “law enforcement overreach” for something like this.<\/p>\n But I highly <\/em>doubt that the raids were carried out because of buckets of urine or caltrops. I’m going to go out on a limb, and say the cops likely have something else; some sort of paper trail linking at least some <\/em>of those arrested to at least some <\/em>kind of organized plan for mayhem. The local leftysphere is running itself ragged trying to spin the “anarchist” raids over the weekend. Charlie Quimby echoes the complaints of many leftybloggers in reaction to the left’s lawyers’ spin about, among other things, the buckets of urine: But then, sometimes a bucket of urine is just a bucket of urine. Not everyone in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-days-of-adolescent-rage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3199","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=3199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nStill – I’m not completely un<\/em>sympathetic with the “anarchists”. More – probably much <\/em>more – on that later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"