{"id":64359,"date":"2017-08-31T07:00:53","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T12:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64359"},"modified":"2020-08-19T10:15:40","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T15:15:40","slug":"let-the-great-retraction-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64359","title":{"rendered":"Let The Great Retraction Begin"},"content":{"rendered":"

There must have been a poll showing that voters don’t, in fact, thing of “Anti”-Fa \/ the “Black Bloc” as anything but a bunch of pampered snowflakes; the left is starting to distance themselves from them.<\/p>\n

The mayor of Berkeley – which has all but packed box lunches for the Blackshirts in recent months – is suddenly talking…well, as tough as a Democrat is allowed to talk about the children of his pals<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we should classify them as a gang,\u201d said Arreguin. \u201cThey come dressed in uniforms. They have weapons, almost like a militia and I think we need to think about that in terms of our law enforcement approach.\u201d<\/p>\n

Arreguin said that while he does not support the far right, it was time to draw the line on the left as well, especially on the black-clad activists who showed up in force and took over both the protests and the park, and played a part in Sunday\u2019s violent clashes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Word has it the Blackshirts plan on “demonstrating” this Sunday at\/around the State Fair. \u00a0It’ll be interesting to see if the City of Saint Paul – which has, in the past, “stood down” for the children of their political superiors – will do anything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There must have been a poll showing that voters don’t, in fact, thing of “Anti”-Fa \/ the “Black Bloc” as anything but a bunch of pampered snowflakes; the left is starting to distance themselves from them. The mayor of Berkeley – which has all but packed box lunches for the Blackshirts in recent months – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[327,321,1],"tags":[382],"class_list":["post-64359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-activism","category-big-left","category-uncategorized","tag-anti-fa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64359","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=64359"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64362,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64359\/revisions\/64362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}