{"id":62233,"date":"2017-02-22T05:00:38","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T11:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=62233"},"modified":"2017-02-21T23:16:59","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T05:16:59","slug":"watching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=62233","title":{"rendered":"Watching&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">1984 is a little late, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mprnews.org\/story\/2017\/01\/16\/st-paul-recycling-bins-contain-controversial-tracking-chip\"><span class=\"s2\">but it&#8217;s arrived in St. Paul<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s3\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s3\">Those new blue recycling carts in St. Paul, you know the ones, you got one. \u00a0The City forgot to mention that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mprnews.org\/story\/2017\/01\/16\/st-paul-recycling-bins-contain-controversial-tracking-chip\"><span class=\"s4\">each has an embedded microchip<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s3\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s3\">St. Paul has mandatory recycling and the chips allow the trucks to see if you\u2019re recycling enough.\u00a0 The City claims they have no plans to enforce the recycling ordinance that way . . . but that\u2019s what the State said about seatbelts, too.\u00a0 Has nobody heard of the camel\u2019s nose?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s3\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s3\">When they quietly implement the next phase, the justification will be to save the planet \u2018for the children.\u2019 But that means the recycling company (hence the government) will be able to track not just how many pounds of recycling you submit, but also which brand of booze you drink, which magazines you read (Playboy \u2018for the articles\u2019, NRA kook stuff, survivor militia newsletters, right-wingnut National Review), what foods you eat (so they can assist you in healthier life choices no doubt), and so on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s3\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s3\">I suppose next, I\u2019ll have to go sneaking around putting my recycling in neighbors bins so I don&#8217;t get targeted by the gun control squads coming to take my weapons and ammo \u2018for my own safety.\u2019\u00a0 I tell ya, it gets harder every year to justify living in this burg. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s3\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s3\">Joe Doakes<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p2\">Never put anything past Saint Paul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: 1984 is a little late, but it&#8217;s arrived in St. Paul. \u00a0Those new blue recycling carts in St. Paul, you know the ones, you got one. \u00a0The City forgot to mention that each has an embedded microchip. \u00a0St. Paul has mandatory recycling and the chips allow the trucks to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny","category-st-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62233","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=62233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62234,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62233\/revisions\/62234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}