{"id":60419,"date":"2016-10-03T05:30:34","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T10:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60419"},"modified":"2016-09-30T03:44:34","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T08:44:34","slug":"60419","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60419","title":{"rendered":"A Matter Of Trust"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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This guy was sitting in the car reading a book<\/span><\/a>, Tasered four times, then shot.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Or he got out of the car with a gun and threatened the officers.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Depends on who you believe.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>On the one hand, a certain group of people Whose Lives Matter have a history of making up facts to support their story. \u00a0The \u201cHands Up\u201d thing comes to mind.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>On the other hand, a certain group of people Who Are Above The Law have a history of making up facts to support their story, too.\u00a0 The cop who dropped the Taser next to his shooting victim comes to mind.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>I honestly can\u2019t decide which group is less trustworthy and that terrifies me.\u00a0 It means the main source of social cohesion is failing.\u00a0 Every time that\u2019s happened throughout history, it\u2019s been a pre-cursor to societal upheaval, often leading to collapse, chaos, anarchy, dictatorship, riot, plague and death.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>It doesn\u2019t matter who we elect as President, if there\u2019s no nation to govern.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Joe Doakes<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This is the elephant in the room; if we can’t trust our government and our fellow citizen, then freedom is really just a slogan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: This guy was sitting in the car reading a book, Tasered four times, then shot. \u00a0Or he got out of the car with a gun and threatened the officers. \u00a0Depends on who you believe. \u00a0On the one hand, a certain group of people Whose Lives Matter have a history […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,286,100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-police-powers","category-your-papers-please"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60419","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=60419"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60427,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60419\/revisions\/60427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}