{"id":62648,"date":"2017-04-05T07:00:37","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T12:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=62648"},"modified":"2020-12-21T05:29:35","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T11:29:35","slug":"speaking-justice-to-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=62648","title":{"rendered":"Speaking Justice To Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On March 4, a group of thugs, concealed in an un-permitted counterprotest, attacked a pro-Trump rally in the Rotunda at the State Capitol; a 17 year old girl was punched, at least one man was maced by someone who was trying to crash through a group of Trump supporters to disrupt the peaceful pro-Trump rally, a woman was hit in the head by a smoke bomb &#8211; an incendiary device&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and you have already spent more time reading this than Ramco Attorney John Choi spent in deciding not to press charges against the six upper-middle-class snowflakes that were arrested, incuding Linwood Kaine, son of Hillary Clinton&#8217;s veep candidate.<\/p>\n<p>They are, of course, the children of the golf buddies of the city&#8217;s DFL establishment, or at least the children of similar Democrat\u00a0apparatchiks elsewhere. \u00a0Urban Liberal Privilege grants them a separate, unequal, nicer brand of justice than the rest of us get.<\/p>\n<p>But there&#8217;s an effort afoot to change that. \u00a0The &#8220;Protecting Civil Discourse&#8221; rally on March 18 demanded that the Ramco and Saint Paul City Attorneys offices actually listen to the actual evidence, and follow the logical conclusion and charge the snowflakes.<\/p>\n<p>Calls and emails are eminently appropriate:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><b><\/b><span class=\"s2\"><b>John Choi<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s3\"><b>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<\/b>Ramsey County Attorney \u00a0<a href=\"tel:%28651%29%20266-3222\"><span class=\"s4\"><b>651-266-3222<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0(elected 2010)<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><b><\/b><span class=\"s2\"><b>Cyndy Melby<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s3\"><b>\u00a0&#8211;<\/b>\u00a0John\u2019s<b>\u00a0<\/b>Exec. Assistant\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:cyndy.melby@co.ramsey.mn.us\"><span class=\"s5\"><b>cyndy.melby@co.ramsey.mn.us<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s3\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s2\"><b>Samuel Clark<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s3\"><b>\u00a0&#8211;<\/b>\u00a0St Paul City Attorney\u00a0<a href=\"tel:%28651%29%20266-8710\"><span class=\"s4\"><b>651-266-8710<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0(Mr. Clark was U.S. Sen. Klobuchar&#8217;s State Director &amp; was appointed by Mayor Chris Coleman 3\/2015).<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li3\"><b><\/b><span class=\"s2\"><b>Laura Pietan<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s3\"><b>\u00a0&#8211;<\/b>\u00a0Assistant City Attorney\u00a0<span class=\"s6\"><b><a href=\"tel:%28651%29%20266-8740\">651-266-8740<\/a><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li3\"><b><\/b><span class=\"s2\"><b>Chris Coleman<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s3\"><b>\u00a0&#8211;<\/b>\u00a0St Paul Mayor\u00a0<a href=\"tel:%28651%29%20266-8510\"><span class=\"s4\"><b>651-266-8510<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:mayor@ci.stpaul.mn.us\"><span class=\"s5\"><b>mayor@ci.stpaul.mn.us<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0(2018 Minnesota Governor Candidate)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of course, John Edwards was right &#8211; there\u00a0<em>are\u00a0<\/em>Two Americas. \u00a0The children of our misbegotten &#8220;elite&#8221; live in one of them, where people with the\u00a0<em>right\u00a0<\/em>political backing can beat people up, block freeways and vandalize not merely freely, not merely at will, but with a nudge and a wink from the powers that be.<\/p>\n<p>Time to let those powers know we&#8217;re watching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 4, a group of thugs, concealed in an un-permitted counterprotest, attacked a pro-Trump rally in the Rotunda at the State Capitol; a 17 year old girl was punched, at least one man was maced by someone who was trying to crash through a group of Trump supporters to disrupt the peaceful pro-Trump rally, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,51,28,349],"tags":[208],"class_list":["post-62648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc","category-liberal-tyranny","category-st-paul","category-urban-liberal-privilege-liberal-tyranny","tag-a-klo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62648","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=62648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62649,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62648\/revisions\/62649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}