{"id":38276,"date":"2013-09-12T12:14:47","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T17:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=38276"},"modified":"2013-09-12T16:04:53","modified_gmt":"2013-09-12T21:04:53","slug":"thanks-for-nothing-wapo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=38276","title":{"rendered":"Or Perhaps Alida Messinger Can Learn From <i>Them<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By the way, as a tax-paying Minnesotan I have to hope that nobody in the <del>Messinger<\/del> Dayton Administration was reading the\u00a0<em>WaPo\u00a0<\/em>piece about the Mexican townspeople that are resisting the <em>narcotraficantes\u00a0<\/em>with their illegal firearms;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/the_americas\/in-the-hills-of-michoacan-self-defense-groups-battle-a-mexican-drug-cartel\/2013\/09\/09\/6947e47a-119f-11e3-a2b3-5e107edf9897_story_1.html\">they might start getting ideas<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The area\u2019s lime growers, for example, were taxed by metrics that included acreage, limes harvested and crates packed. The meager wages of the lime pickers were also taxed, along with the bus fares that they paid to get to the groves. Gang members taxed sacks of corn and the tortillas made from them. A man installing a floor in his house soon had a gang member at his door, demanding a fee. A man who ran a restaurant said the cartel began taking a cut of the coins in his jukebox.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The DFL Majority: \u00a0Like cartel <em>sicarios<\/em>, in Priuses!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By the way, as a tax-paying Minnesotan I have to hope that nobody in the Messinger Dayton Administration was reading the\u00a0WaPo\u00a0piece about the Mexican townspeople that are resisting the narcotraficantes\u00a0with their illegal firearms;\u00a0they might start getting ideas: The area\u2019s lime growers, for example, were taxed by metrics that included acreage, limes harvested and crates packed. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,20,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-democrats","category-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38276","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=38276"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38325,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38276\/revisions\/38325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}