{"id":74946,"date":"2020-08-10T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74946"},"modified":"2020-08-07T07:42:28","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T12:42:28","slug":"peaceable-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74946","title":{"rendered":"Peaceable Assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>First Amendment of the Constitution protects the fundamental right to peaceably assemble and petition the government for redress of grievances.<br>60 days of rioting, burning down buildings, destroying property, is not what the Framers contemplated. Those are not peaceful protests so they&#8217;re not covered by the First Amendment. They are Insurrection, which must be put down to preserve civil order.<\/p><p>Portland needs to announce that we&#8217;ve had our little fun, but we&#8217;re done now. Starting tonight, anybody suspected of Riot will be shot on sight. Then shoot a few people,\u00a0 &#8220;a whiff of the grape,&#8221; to encourage the others.<\/p><p>The time-out from reality is over. We are going back to constitutional republic.<\/p><p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The government of Portland &#8211; like that of Minneapolis, except apparently the Charter Commission &#8211; is so dependent on the (politically connected parents and aunts and uncles of the) mob in the streets, they wouldn&#8217;t dare raise a finger to them. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Amendment of the Constitution protects the fundamental right to peaceably assemble and petition the government for redress of grievances.60 days of rioting, burning down buildings, destroying property, is not what the Framers contemplated. Those are not peaceful protests so they&#8217;re not covered by the First Amendment. They are Insurrection, which must be put down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[419,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2020-riots","category-liberty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74946","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=74946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74951,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74946\/revisions\/74951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}