{"id":3219,"date":"2008-09-04T07:43:04","date_gmt":"2008-09-04T12:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3219"},"modified":"2008-09-04T07:43:04","modified_gmt":"2008-09-04T12:43:04","slug":"what-if-a-bunch-of-el-flopola-self-styled-radicals-took-their-masks-off-and-nobody-cared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3219","title":{"rendered":"What If A Bunch Of El-Flopola Self-Styled &#8220;Radicals&#8221; Took Their Masks Off And Nobody Cared?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend&#8217;s raids in Minneapolis drew a fair share of controversy; many commentators posited that, based on the list of materials captured in the raids, it appeared that Ramsey County sheriff Bob Fletcher overreached in carrying out the raids (although I personally will wait to hear more about the evidence against the various arrestees).<\/p>\n<p>I suspect that the Ramco Sheriff and the other Law Enforcement agencies involved in the raids did a little quick calculating (<em>Warning!\u00a0 Pure Conjecture Follows!<\/em>) and figured that weathering a few lawsuits from the ACLU&#8217;s legal jackals would be better than dealing with the kinds of violence and mayhem the subjects were planning.<\/p>\n<p>I think it worked.<\/p>\n<p>The first day&#8217;s protests were a complete flop.\u00a0 The anarkids&#8217; planned mayhem was largely anticipated and controlled.\u00a0 Traffic was never blocked. And outside of a few spasms of impotent violence, things pretty much just worked.<\/p>\n<p>So the anarkids are back to going &#8220;They hit us first!&#8221;\u00a0 They&#8217;ll be &#8220;unmasking&#8221; and &#8220;answering questions&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/twincities.indymedia.org\/2008\/sep\/rnc-welcoming-committee-unmask-answer-questions\">at a presser at one of the raided houses<\/a> later today.<\/p>\n<p>Almost wish I could be there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend&#8217;s raids in Minneapolis drew a fair share of controversy; many commentators posited that, based on the list of materials captured in the raids, it appeared that Ramsey County sheriff Bob Fletcher overreached in carrying out the raids (although I personally will wait to hear more about the evidence against the various arrestees). I [&hellip;]<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-convention-08","category-days-of-adolescent-rage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3219","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=3219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}