{"id":57648,"date":"2016-02-19T12:00:24","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T18:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=57648"},"modified":"2016-02-18T13:10:13","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T19:10:13","slug":"ninny-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=57648","title":{"rendered":"Ninny Up!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Protect Minnesota&#8221; is taking it to the streets!<\/p>\n<p>Heather Martens &#8211; who, let the record show, has never, not once, said or written a single true, substantive and original thing about guns or gun law &#8211; is undertaking one of her last actions as &#8220;executive director&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With the Minnesota legislature convening on <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1951624273\"><span class=\"aQJ\">March 8<\/span><\/span>, now is the time to plug into our plan to stop the gun lobby and build safer communities! Every session, the gun lobby tries to ram through bills like &#8220;Shoot First\/Stand Your Ground&#8221; or carrying pistols without a permit. We&#8217;ve been able to stop them year after year &#8212; <b>but only because you have shown up. \u00a0<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>She&#8217;s making things up\u00a0again. \u00a0Nobody &#8220;showed up&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Stand Your Ground&#8221; passed the legislature with bipartisan support; it was vetoed by Governor Dayton when Alita Messinger yanked his leash. \u00a0And that was the <em>only\u00a0<\/em>reason Minnesota didn&#8217;t join <a href=\"http:\/\/criminal.findlaw.com\/criminal-law-basics\/states-that-have-stand-your-ground-laws.html\">23 other states<\/a> that opted to protect the rights of people who resist victimization by criminals and greedy prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Protect&#8221; MN&#8217;s clubfooted version of activism may have contributed to the good guys almost winning on that issue.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, they&#8217;re going to try to get people to turn up again:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Can you commit to showing up again?\u00a0<\/b><em>[Ha ha ha! \u00a0&#8211; Ed]<\/em>\u00a0You&#8217;re invited to a meeting near you next week:<br \/>\n<b>In Mahtomedi &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/org2.salsalabs.com\/dia\/track.jsp?v=2&amp;c=5JLQM6rXz4e2LUcktd6bbFL5RjnEdqXw\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"aBn\" data-term=\"goog_1951624274\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Wednesday, February 24<\/span><\/span>,<\/a><\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/org2.salsalabs.com\/dia\/track.jsp?v=2&amp;c=lSzWzhB1QHbv3HxqphzHjVL5RjnEdqXw\" target=\"_blank\"> at <span class=\"aBn\" data-term=\"goog_1951624275\"><span class=\"aQJ\">6:30 pm<\/span><\/span> &#8212; Click here to RSVP<\/a><br \/>\n<b>In Saint Paul &#8211; <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/org2.salsalabs.com\/dia\/track.jsp?v=2&amp;c=1gXvMbVGBM9dn%2Fzwh%2FEFTFL5RjnEdqXw\" target=\"_blank\"><b><span class=\"aBn\" data-term=\"goog_1951624276\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Thursday, February 25<\/span><\/span>,<\/b> at <span class=\"aBn\" data-term=\"goog_1951624277\"><span class=\"aQJ\">6:30 pm<\/span><\/span> &#8211; Click here to RSVP<\/a><b><br \/>\nIn Duluth &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/org2.salsalabs.com\/dia\/track.jsp?v=2&amp;c=1V83mHv2F8UTAnY82PwKHVL5RjnEdqXw\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"aBn\" data-term=\"goog_1951624278\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Sunday, February 28<\/span><\/span>, <\/a><\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/org2.salsalabs.com\/dia\/track.jsp?v=2&amp;c=V6IbwVwAMNoTO8d0LvvE%2BlL5RjnEdqXw\" target=\"_blank\">a faith summit from <span class=\"aBn\" data-term=\"goog_1951624279\"><span class=\"aQJ\">1:30-4:30<\/span><\/span>.<b> <\/b>Click here to RSVP.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wanna know something funny? \u00a0If you try to RSVP, they don&#8217;t divulge the locations. \u00a0They are apparently worried that Real Americans will infiltrate the meetings and&#8230;tell the truth? \u00a0I dunno.<\/p>\n<p>And what can the gentle reader expect?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At these meetings,<b> <\/b>you will:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Learn how to pass <a href=\"http:\/\/org2.salsalabs.com\/dia\/track.jsp?v=2&amp;c=rfb1GVcg%2F3p1A2v0n1a%2FjFL5RjnEdqXw\" target=\"_blank\"><b>our background check resolution<\/b><\/a> at your precinct caucus <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1951624280\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Tuesday, March 1<\/span><\/span>;<\/li>\n<li>Sign up for face-to-face meetings with key legislators during the session;<\/li>\n<li>Meet our new executive director!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So wait &#8211; &#8220;Protect MN&#8221; is going to pass a &#8220;background check resolution&#8221;, to become part of a DFL platform that already calls for gun control?<\/p>\n<p>Sounds like a brilliant use of time and effort!<\/p>\n<p>Oh, yeah &#8211; as re the last bullet:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>That&#8217;s right, I&#8217;m stepping out of the executive director role to support Protect MN in other capacities. Watch your email for the full announcement. Meanwhile, see you next week!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you learn the secret handshake, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>As for me? \u00a0Heather Martens, I&#8217;ll attend your meeting for $1,500.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thank you for all you do,<\/p>\n<p>Heather Martens<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The reader most likely &#8220;does&#8221; nothing &#8211; which likely has more effect on politics in MN than &#8220;Protect&#8221; MN does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Protect Minnesota&#8221; is taking it to the streets! Heather Martens &#8211; who, let the record show, has never, not once, said or written a single true, substantive and original thing about guns or gun law &#8211; is undertaking one of her last actions as &#8220;executive director&#8221; With the Minnesota legislature convening on March 8, now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[325],"tags":[201],"class_list":["post-57648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-gun-control","tag-heather-martens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57648","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=57648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57649,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57648\/revisions\/57649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}