{"id":62792,"date":"2017-04-19T11:00:41","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T16:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=62792"},"modified":"2017-04-18T21:53:54","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T02:53:54","slug":"only-complete-subjugation-will-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=62792","title":{"rendered":"Only Complete Subjugation Will Do"},"content":{"rendered":"

The City of Minneapolis has decided not to completely put Surdyk’s out of business for the “crime” of selling liquor on Sundays because Sunday liquor sales would be a catastrophic moral blow to the state<\/del>\u00a0even though\u00a0the law hasn’t quite expired yet. \u00a0 \u00a0The city negotiated the fine down from a multimillion dollar one-month suspension of the liquor license to $6,000 in fines and eight Sundays of suspension…<\/p>\n

…only to have a City Council committee reject the deal.<\/p>\n

Why?<\/p>\n

Reading between Lisa Goodman’s lines, it’s because the greatest crime is defying Mother Government, or even not paying instant obeisance:<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe went down and asked him not to open, the state called him and asked him not to be open, and he basically said, \u2018Too bad, I\u2019m not going to do it,\u2019\u201d Council Member Lisa Goodman said. \u201cIf he had shut down right after they came in and asked him to do so, I might have felt different<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

“Justice” in Minneapolis is a matter of connections, after all:<\/p>\n

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A new deal must be negotiated over the next month, the council committee said, and there may be a public hearing. Goodman said she has heard from \u201ca lot of members of the public\u201d<\/strong> about the matter, and they are not happy<\/strong> that Surdyk might have gotten off with a $6,000 fine and 10-day suspension.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, Goodman. \u00a0I just bet you did, and I just bet they’re not.<\/p>\n

The worst part? \u00a0The best defense seems to be self-abasement:<\/p>\n

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His lawyer, Dennis Johnson, told council members that a $6,000 fine would wipe out any profit Surdyk made on March 12, the day he opened illegally. Johnson attempted to make no justification for his client\u2019s actions, however.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s simply that it was a boneheaded<\/strong> move,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cWe need to deal with it, and accept any consequences that come from the city.\u201d<\/p>\n

Johnson said Surdyk just wants the problem to be resolved, and he is hoping that time and the fact that his business has been a model of regulatory compliance for 40 years, will help the city show some leniency.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the heat of the moment he made a horrible decision<\/strong>,\u201d Johnson said, as Surdyk looked on. \u201cHe can\u2019t justify<\/strong> what he did. He screwed up<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It’s American in 2017, and striking a blow for freedom against a stupid regulation in an autocratic bureaucracy needs to be defended by pleading “I just can’t make decisions without the beneficent hand of the all-wise Council guiding me”.<\/p>\n

This nation is doomed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The City of Minneapolis has decided not to completely put Surdyk’s out of business for the “crime” of selling liquor on Sundays because Sunday liquor sales would be a catastrophic moral blow to the state\u00a0even though\u00a0the law hasn’t quite expired yet. \u00a0 \u00a0The city negotiated the fine down from a multimillion dollar one-month suspension of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,51,129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minneapolis","category-liberal-tyranny","category-unions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62792","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=62792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62793,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62792\/revisions\/62793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}