{"id":3252,"date":"2008-09-06T13:30:53","date_gmt":"2008-09-06T18:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3252"},"modified":"2008-09-07T10:50:14","modified_gmt":"2008-09-07T15:50:14","slug":"shaken-not-detonated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3252","title":{"rendered":"Shaken, not detonated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of our loyal commenters accused law enforcement of &#8220;overreaching&#8221; during the pre-RNC house raids that uncovered various and sundry household items; asserting that the items uncovered could be used for anything.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Does Freedom of Assembly Include the Right to Carry a Bucket of Urine?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3189\">Does Freedom of Assembly Include the Right to Carry a Bucket of Urine?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"And Now She\u2019s A Weapons Expert\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3195\">And Now She\u2019s A Weapons Expert<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Star Tribune listed an <em>abbreviated<\/em> list of said items; conveniently omitting those that tend to be less useful for domestic chores, some of those items included throwing knives, a gas mask and filter, homemade caltrops (everyone that reads this blog surely knows what they are by now), and empty plastic buckets cut and made into shields.<\/p>\n<p>Despite hundreds of arrests and the generous use of mace and teargas, the event went on without making national news for the wrong reason. Clearly this was the result of a conspicuous show of force and a proactive approach on the part of law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>But it could have been en entirely different story if it weren&#8217;t for the aforementioned approach, and as it turns out a little luck.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>MINNEAPOLIS (AP) &#8211; Two Texas men are charged in federal court in Minneapolis with illegally possessing Molotov cocktails. Authorities say the men planned to target law enforcement during the Republican National Convention.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-two-year-old David Guy McKay and 23-year-old Bradley Neil Crowder are each charged with one count of possession of firearms that were not registered to them.<\/p>\n<p>The two Austin men are in custody following an initial court appearance Friday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the criminal complaint, law enforcement officers overheard a conversation in which McKay said the Molotov cocktails he and Crowder made would be thrown at vehicles parked in a lot in St. Paul.<\/p>\n<p>The lot was used by law enforcement, and patrolled by U.S. Secret Service and the military.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just for fun, I would entertain anyone&#8217;s offering as to other common household uses for the molotov cocktail. Thank you in advance for your creativity as a liberal to defend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eckernet.com\/2008\/09\/quote_of_the_day-25.html\">almost any behavior<\/a> as a personal freedom or exercise of free speech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of our loyal commenters accused law enforcement of &#8220;overreaching&#8221; during the pre-RNC house raids that uncovered various and sundry household items; asserting that the items uncovered could be used for anything. Does Freedom of Assembly Include the Right to Carry a Bucket of Urine? And Now She\u2019s A Weapons Expert The Star Tribune [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3252","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\/3252","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\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}