{"id":54789,"date":"2015-08-16T12:00:32","date_gmt":"2015-08-16T17:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=54789"},"modified":"2015-08-13T13:57:10","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T18:57:10","slug":"doakes-sunday-big-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=54789","title":{"rendered":"Doakes Sunday:  Big Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is disturbing.\u00a0 These people are delusional.\u00a0 And nobody is calling them on it, which is the same as encouraging them to it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/stories\/2015\/08\/10\/listen-to-the-chant-ferguson-protesters-were-caught-on-video-shouting-shortly-before-gunfire-erupted\/\">We\u2019re ready for war!\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>No, you\u2019re not.\u00a0 Unarmed looters are not ready for war.\u00a0 Teenagers shooting pistols sideways, are not ready for war.\u00a0 You\u2019re ready for a \u201cwar\u201d like the War on Poverty, where somebody hands you free stuff.\u00a0 You\u2019re ready for a \u201cwar\u201d like the Palestinians, where you stage fake outrages for sympathetic media.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re not ready for the kind of war you\u2019re likely to get if you stop shooting each other in the ghetto and come out to the suburbs where the hunters live, where a 9mm pistol is not a terror weapon but an object of derision, where even liberal Democrats own a shotgun and deer rifle with ammo on hand and experience using it.\u00a0 Your weapons are useless beyond a city block, you have no food supplies for extended conflict or medical supplies to treat wounded.\u00a0 Your communications are cell phones until the authorities shut off the towers.\u00a0 Your tricked-out Buicks have limited transport load and no off-road maneuvering capability.\u00a0 Your enemy won\u2019t be wearing uniforms for easy identification, they\u2019ll be in makeshift blinds, wearing camouflage, using 3x scopes and defending their own turf.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The government would no doubt call out the military to preserve order, attempting to disarm the suburbanites while providing a<a href=\"http:\/\/baltimore.cbslocal.com\/2015\/04\/25\/baltimore-mayor-gave-those-who-wished-to-destroy-space-to-do-that\/\">safe space for rioters<\/a>.\u00a0 Might work.\u00a0 Or some hothead homeowner might shoot some National Guardsmen and then all bets are off.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Chant all you want, in the ghetto.\u00a0 Shoot each other, rob your own stores, burn the entire thing down, if that\u2019s what makes you happy.\u00a0 Just don\u2019t start believing your own fantasies.\u00a0 That would get real ugly, real quickly, with no winner in sight and no clear path to victory.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This blog eschews big, bloody-minded talk, no matter who it&#8217;s from.<\/p>\n<p>Which puts me 50% ahead of the Department of Homeland Security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: This is disturbing.\u00a0 These people are delusional.\u00a0 And nobody is calling them on it, which is the same as encouraging them to it. &nbsp; \u201cWe\u2019re ready for war!\u201d &nbsp; No, you\u2019re not.\u00a0 Unarmed looters are not ready for war.\u00a0 Teenagers shooting pistols sideways, are not ready for war.\u00a0 You\u2019re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-culture-war","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54789","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=54789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54802,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54789\/revisions\/54802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}