{"id":74041,"date":"2020-05-06T07:23:05","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T12:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74041"},"modified":"2020-07-29T08:06:40","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T13:06:40","slug":"civil-disobedience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74041","title":{"rendered":"Civil Disobedience"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Saint Paul barbershop, facing a life-or-death business decision, <a href=\"https:\/\/minnesota.cbslocal.com\/2020\/05\/05\/coronavirus-in-minnesota-st-paul-barbershop-reopens-defying-stay-at-home-order\/?fbclid=IwAR2T9CGhbvIKxph45aaB8e45XCSKDJDMEOfv7gmDkJVKKBxeKRtdhfTf9nQ\">chooses life<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>In the shadows of the State Capitol, King Milan Barbershop had, for the first time in seven weeks, its lights on. Milan Dennie is the owner.<\/p><p>\u201cIt\u2019s my livelihood,\u201d Dennie said. \u201cI\u2019ve been sitting here coming up with strategies and plans on how to open up and do it correctly.\u201d<\/p><p>His customers outside had at least two things in common: The plea to reopen businesses, and the need for a haircut.<\/p><p>For two hours, Dennie enforced social distancing and sanitizing as a way to prove he\u2019s serious for the 16 clients he served.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Government chooses&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;well, not &#8220;death&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s go for &#8220;mindless, unquestioning acquiescence to even the most arbitrary decision of The State&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The 17th person to walk in was St. Paul police.<\/p><p>\u201cWe just stepped outside and he talked to me,\u201d Dennie said. \u201cHe said he feels what I\u2019m going through, but the order is in place right now.\u201d<\/p><p>Technically, the state can shut him down and fine Dennie up to $25,000. He\u2019s aware he could lose his shop by this decision to reopen. He\u2019s convinced he\u2019d lose it by staying closed.<\/p><p>When the doors did close, donations came in along with support. Some from fellow barbers who are also stressed from not providing.<\/p><p>\u201cEverybody keeps saying, \u2018File this, file that.\u2019 You file everything you want to, until your hands hurt,\u201d Burnsville barbershop owner Nile House said. \u201cYou can keep typing til your hands are aching, but you\u2019re not going to get it because it\u2019s not coming.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>When people stop respecting what government does, you can expect people to start working around, rather than with, it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saint Paul barbershop, facing a life-or-death business decision, chooses life: In the shadows of the State Capitol, King Milan Barbershop had, for the first time in seven weeks, its lights on. Milan Dennie is the owner. \u201cIt\u2019s my livelihood,\u201d Dennie said. \u201cI\u2019ve been sitting here coming up with strategies and plans on how to open [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,416,30,28],"tags":[423],"class_list":["post-74041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-covid19","category-liberty","category-st-paul","tag-the-endless-emergency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74041","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=74041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74042,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74041\/revisions\/74042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}