{"id":41372,"date":"2014-01-26T09:00:13","date_gmt":"2014-01-26T15:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=41372"},"modified":"2014-01-26T09:23:25","modified_gmt":"2014-01-26T15:23:25","slug":"doakes-sunday-government-without-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=41372","title":{"rendered":"Doakes Sunday: Government Without Limits"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n

Does this decision seem over-broad to you?<\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t matter that the gun is in somebody else\u2019s locked safe and you don\u2019t have the key.\u00a0 You\u2019re still in possession because you could have burgled the safe.\u00a0 How about the house next door?\u00a0 He could have burgled that, too, or the gun store in Minneapolis.<\/span><\/p>\n

And since when does the strength of the container determine who has possession of the contents?<\/span><\/p>\n

Yes, I know, the guy\u2019s a crook and the weapon is illegal.\u00a0 So why bother with procedures? Just go ahead and punish him.\u00a0 He\u2019s probably a TEA Party member anyway, and a Christian besides.<\/span><\/p>\n

Unless, of course, we actually care about limitations on government and due process and Rule of Law and all those other shyster lawyer loopholes that don\u2019t mean a thing until suddenly the IRS, ATF, NSA and FBI are knocking at your door.<\/span><\/p>\n

Joe Doakes<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

As the Obama Administration has shown us, sometimes it’s just easier to get forgiveness than permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Does this decision seem over-broad to you? It doesn\u2019t matter that the gun is in somebody else\u2019s locked safe and you don\u2019t have the key.\u00a0 You\u2019re still in possession because you could have burgled the safe.\u00a0 How about the house next door?\u00a0 He could have burgled that, too, or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41372","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=41372"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41423,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41372\/revisions\/41423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}