{"id":63118,"date":"2017-05-16T07:00:24","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T12:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63118"},"modified":"2017-05-15T10:09:43","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T15:09:43","slug":"prediction-and-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63118","title":{"rendered":"Prediction And Opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week, the “hate crime” at Saint Olaf – a typewritten racist message left under a black students windshield wiper – turned out to be a hoax.<\/p>\n

As, in fact, have the vast majority of “Hate Crime” incidents in the past six months; for all the caterwauling about the wave of hate certain to accompany Donald Trump’s election, nearly every episode has turned out to be lefty false-flags.<\/p>\n

I Don’t Make The Rules:<\/strong>: \u00a0It’s gotten to the point where it’s time to codify this as law. \u00a0Berg’s Law – in this case,<\/p>\n

Berg’s Twentieth Law of Social Justice Warmongering<\/strong>: \u00a0 All incidents of “hate speech” not captured on video (involving being delivered by someone proven not to be a ringer) shall be assumed to be hoaxes until proven otherwise.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No, Actually, I Do Make The Rules:<\/strong> \u00a0Saturday, the\u00a0City Pages\u00a0<\/em>ran a story involving some anti-semitic, anti-muslim imagery around Uptown and Lake of the Isles:<\/p>\n

The street sidles Lake of the Isles one block to the west in the Kenwood<\/a> neighborhood of Minneapolis.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, a resident was enjoying the agreeable spring morning when she came upon a disconcerting sight. Affixed to light poles on the northwest side of the lake along a paved trail were\u00a0anti-Semitic and Islamophobic stickers.<\/p>\n

“Fuck Jews” read one. The other had a hand giving the middle finger and the word “Islam” below it.<\/p>\n

She summarily took down the stickers and contacted Councilwoman Lisa Goodman<\/a>, \u00a0telling her, “I was so shocked. I don\u2019t think I have ever seen anything like that in Minneapolis.”<\/p>\n

As of late Thursday afternoon, neither the Minneapolis Police Department nor the Park Police had received report of the incident.<\/p>\n

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At the bottom of the Islamophobic sticker listed a website: tightrope.cc.<\/p>\n

“It’s not illegal to be white\u2026 yet!” reads tightrope’s main page.<\/p>\n

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The site is a one-stop shop for all goodies intolerant, from the “Racist Joke Book” to “White Lives Matter” stickers to KKK hats.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This episode doesn’t pass the sniff test.<\/p>\n

Whi;e, “Tightrope.cc” could just as easily be legitimate as a false flag (\u00a0the proprietors die in a fire, either way), putting a link on a poster is easy.<\/p>\n

But the posters around Uptown and Lake of the Isles? \u00a0My BS detector practically jumped out of its mounting bracket.<\/p>\n

First – cutesy photoshops with mid-level production values that look like they were done by art school fops, profaning religious imagery? \u00a0That’s a Minneapolis lefty thing (If I didn’t know better – and I actually don’t – I’d say that middle finger up above looks like Ken “Avidor” Weiner’s work – but I’m told he’s at least semi-retired from whatever it was he did).<\/p>\n

And Uptown and Lake of the Isles? \u00a0 Please.<\/p>\n

Most people who do this sort of thing stay on home turf. \u00a0 There’s a reason the snowflake at Saint Olaf dropped a racist note\u00a0at \u02c6Saint Olaf\u02c6-\u00a0<\/em>because\u00a0it’s home turf<\/em>. \u00a0 The perp knows that if he’d have dropped anti-black racism in North Minneapolis and been caught, they’d be finding pieces of him in dog stools for weeks.<\/p>\n

My guess – and it is a guess, but if I were a gambling man I’d bet money on it – is that this was done by a couple of twenty-something social justice snowflakes looking to false-flag the right –\u00a0all\u00a0<\/em>the right.<\/p>\n

Am I right?<\/p>\n

Who knows? \u00a0 I’ve been wrong – once or twice.<\/p>\n

But’s called “Berg’s 20th Law” for a reason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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