{"id":72446,"date":"2019-10-22T05:00:11","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T10:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72446"},"modified":"2019-10-20T11:54:02","modified_gmt":"2019-10-20T16:54:02","slug":"what-is-this-a-rhetorical-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72446","title":{"rendered":"What, Is This A Rhetorical Question?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Imagine the Mayor of some Southern city announces Kamala Harris is not welcome in his town but since she&#8217;s coming, he extends an open invitation for all KKK to protest her visit in the spirit of &#8220;free speech.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0<br>The city demands she post $1 million security bond &#8220;in case there&#8217;s trouble.&#8221;\u00a0 The police chief assigns dozens of cops to line the route Harris&#8217; supporters must walk, wearing riot helmets, slapping nightsticks into their palms, holding the leashes of snarling police dogs, &#8220;to maintain public order.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0<br>The Health Department temporarily closes all food vendors within several blocks and disables all restrooms in the rally building, for fear of a &#8220;potential cholera outbreak.&#8221;<br>Every one of these actions has some non-discriminatory reason.\u00a0 Would Harris have a valid complaint for voter intimidation?\u00a0 Would those actions be a violation of voters&#8217; civil rights?\u00a0<br>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>C-130s full of ACLU and Justice Department lawyers would be winging their way southward before the last porta-potty got chained up. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine the Mayor of some Southern city announces Kamala Harris is not welcome in his town but since she&#8217;s coming, he extends an open invitation for all KKK to protest her visit in the spirit of &#8220;free speech.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0The city demands she post $1 million security bond &#8220;in case there&#8217;s trouble.&#8221;\u00a0 The police chief assigns dozens [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minneapolis","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72446","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=72446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72447,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72446\/revisions\/72447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}