{"id":66450,"date":"2018-03-29T05:00:42","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T10:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66450"},"modified":"2018-03-28T23:18:53","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T04:18:53","slug":"museum-pieces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66450","title":{"rendered":"Museum Pieces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Retired Supreme Court Justice Stevens calls for the repeal of the Second Amendment.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2018\/03\/27\/597259426\/retired-supreme-court-justice-stevens-calls-for-repeal-of-second-amendment\">It\u2019s a relic of the 18<sup>th<\/sup> century.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>His proposal would make sense if humanity had been so fundamentally transformed by the passing years that we no longer needed a check on government power.\u00a0 Looking around the world, or even at our own FBI, that doesn\u2019t seem to be the case.<\/p>\n<p>Hey buddy, you know what else is a relic of the 18<sup>th<\/sup> Century?\u00a0 The Constitution itself.\u00a0 Let\u2019s dump that, too.\u00a0 Make Donald Trump President-for-Life, abolish the concept of judicial review and expand Congress to 5,000 members that can form and dissolve coalitions at will, as other third world s***holes do.<\/p>\n<p>Why not?\u00a0 What could possibly go wrong?<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With the modern left, today&#8217;s jokes are tomorrow&#8217;s crises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Retired Supreme Court Justice Stevens calls for the repeal of the Second Amendment.\u00a0 It\u2019s a relic of the 18th century. His proposal would make sense if humanity had been so fundamentally transformed by the passing years that we no longer needed a check on government power.\u00a0 Looking around the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66450","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=66450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66451,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66450\/revisions\/66451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}