{"id":51035,"date":"2015-02-02T05:00:47","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T11:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=51035"},"modified":"2015-02-01T20:51:09","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T02:51:09","slug":"juxtaposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=51035","title":{"rendered":"Juxtaposition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Technology to track citizens <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kare11.com\/news\/article\/1028823\/391\/License-plate-tracking-debate-simmers-in-Minnesota-\">is a Good Thing<\/a> because cops can find suspects (and also make some nice coin selling license plate data).<\/p>\n<p>Technology to track cops <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twcc.com\/articles\/2015\/01\/28\/s\/sheriffs-expand-concerns-about-waze-mobile-traffic-app#\/0\">is a Bad Thing<\/a> because ordinary citizens can find speed traps (and thereby save some nice coin on speeding tickets).<\/p>\n<p>Cops want dash-board cameras to film encounters with citizens, but <a href=\"http:\/\/fija.org\/2014\/03\/04\/jury-acquits-minnesota-man-of-filming-police\/\">don&#8217;t want citizens to film encounters with cops<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Cops should be allowed to use guns for self-defense, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=26609\">but citizens shouldn&#8217;t.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cops are Government Agents; Government Agents analyze every problem as a power-struggle between Us and Them; and Government Agents always come to the same conclusion: heads they win, tails we lose. That&#8217;s one reason the Founders insisted on the right to keep and bear arms &#8211; so ordinary citizens could resist the enemies of freedom, foreign AND domestic.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> And if our founding fathers had known about ubiquitous video and open source cryptography, then put those in the constitution, as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Technology to track citizens is a Good Thing because cops can find suspects (and also make some nice coin selling license plate data). Technology to track cops is a Bad Thing because ordinary citizens can find speed traps (and thereby save some nice coin on speeding tickets). Cops want [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[256,30,286,100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fourth-amendment","category-liberty","category-police-powers","category-your-papers-please"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51035","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=51035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51036,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51035\/revisions\/51036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}