{"id":71371,"date":"2019-05-23T06:09:14","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T11:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71371"},"modified":"2019-05-23T06:09:14","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T11:09:14","slug":"guilty-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71371","title":{"rendered":"Guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>US currency is legal tender for all debts, public and private.<\/p><p>80% of all currency contains\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/06\/26\/health\/atm-dirty-cash-partner\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">trace amounts of cocaine<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p><p>Possession of a\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/mn.gov\/law-library-stat\/archive\/ctapun\/2019\/OPa181108-052019.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">trace amount of cocaine on currency in your pocket is a felony<\/a>, regardless of how the cocaine got on the currency.<\/p><p>You are required to use our money, but you are prohibited from using our money.\u00a0 Catch 22.\u00a0 Look, people, that book was satire, not a guide to public policy.\u00a0 Fix the law.<\/p><p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>To much of our administrative class, &#8220;everyone is an inadvertent felon&#8221; is a feature, not a bug. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US currency is legal tender for all debts, public and private. 80% of all currency contains\u00a0trace amounts of cocaine.\u00a0 Possession of a\u00a0trace amount of cocaine on currency in your pocket is a felony, regardless of how the cocaine got on the currency. You are required to use our money, but you are prohibited from using [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71371","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=71371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71372,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71371\/revisions\/71372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}