{"id":65702,"date":"2018-01-17T11:00:44","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T17:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65702"},"modified":"2018-01-15T22:11:40","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T04:11:40","slug":"imminent-domain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65702","title":{"rendered":"Imminent Domain"},"content":{"rendered":"

SCENE:\u00a0 Mitch BERG is in the lobby of the AMC Arden Hills, waiting to see “Godzilla Vs. Ayn Rand”.\u00a0 Stainding coincidentally in front of BERG are several members of the Minnesota 5th Congressional District LIbertarian Party;\u00a0 Stephanie Marie ANNAN,\u00a0Community organizer,Garth MULLER, the Vice Chair for Ideological Purity, Carpal POX,\u00a0 the deputy chair,Victor VON SCLIEFFENBERG-MOLTKE, Vice Chair for Education, and Anarchy GOATEEMONGER, inreach director.\u00a0 \u00a0 The group is talking; BERG is reluctantly overhearing the conversation.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

GOATEEMONGER:\u00a0 Today in class, my kid told the teacher “Taxation is theft!”.<\/p>\n

(General hooting and backslapping ensues<\/em>).<\/p>\n

ANNAN:\u00a0 You are such a good dad!<\/p>\n

MULLER:\u00a0 Next he’ll be telling them to Vote Harder!<\/p>\n

(More backslapping<\/em>).<\/p>\n

GOATEEMONGER:\u00a0 Right!\u00a0 And you won’t believe this; the teacher asked him who was going to build the roads!<\/p>\n

(Generalized guffawing ensues<\/em>)<\/p>\n

SCHLIEFFENGERG-MOLTKE:\u00a0 Hah!\u00a0 Roads!<\/p>\n

BERG:\u00a0 So Mr. Goateemonger – what did your kid answer?<\/p>\n

ANNAN:\u00a0 \u00a0Here!\u00a0 Have some more government!~<\/p>\n

(More hooting and back-slapping<\/em>)<\/p>\n

MULLER:\u00a0 Hey, look!\u00a0 Only government can wipe my butt!<\/p>\n

(Broad har-di-harring<\/em>)<\/p>\n

BERG:\u00a0 Er…so did your kid answer?<\/p>\n

POX:\u00a0 I read an article the other day that says fusion-powered hovercars are right around the corner.\u00a0 It’s going to be a non-issue any day now.<\/p>\n

(Vigorous head-nodding ensues<\/em>).<\/p>\n

SCHLIEFFENGERG-MOLTKE (affecting a constipated sounding voice<\/em>):\u00a0 Vote harder!\u00a0 Vote harder!<\/p>\n

(The laughter is becoming brweathless<\/em>)<\/p>\n

BERG:\u00a0 So – did the kid ever…y’know…answer?<\/p>\n

ANNAN: Roads!<\/p>\n

(IMore guffawing follows<\/em>)<\/p>\n

BERG\u00a0 Nothing?<\/p>\n

(And SCENE<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SCENE:\u00a0 Mitch BERG is in the lobby of the AMC Arden Hills, waiting to see “Godzilla Vs. Ayn Rand”.\u00a0 Stainding coincidentally in front of BERG are several members of the Minnesota 5th Congressional District LIbertarian Party;\u00a0 Stephanie Marie ANNAN,\u00a0Community organizer,Garth MULLER, the Vice Chair for Ideological Purity, Carpal POX,\u00a0 the deputy chair,Victor VON SCLIEFFENBERG-MOLTKE, Vice […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[236],"class_list":["post-65702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-dramatization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65702","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=65702"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65718,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65702\/revisions\/65718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}