{"id":74961,"date":"2020-08-07T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74961"},"modified":"2020-08-07T08:51:29","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T13:51:29","slug":"terribly-sad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74961","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Terribly Sad&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Can you imagine the tone if the two &#8220;idealistic young lawyers&#8221; in this story had worn MAGA hats?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A terribly sad story. Two young and idealistic lawyers, get wrapped up in the BLM protest movement. In a moment of madness they throw a Molotov cocktail into an abandoned police car and burn it. Now they face a minimum 35 years in a federal prison.  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/o8aRqjOSwY\">https:\/\/t.co\/o8aRqjOSwY<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Richard Spoor (@Richard_Spoor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Richard_Spoor\/status\/1290976662721527809?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 5, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m sure those young lawyers will do just fine pleading &#8220;moment of madness&#8217; in court.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Spoor (a prog lawyer who has the most wonderfully occoponymous name, if you speak any Dutch at all) says that young people are prone to doing stupid things (true), and that we should have some forgiveness in our hearts.  Throwing a firebomb shouldn&#8217;t rate 35 years in federal prison. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But forgiveness without atonement is meaningless &#8211; and I wager a shiny new quarter that the overentitled, over-schooled, under-educated wannabe Che Guevaras in this story feel no remorse whatsoever. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Regret over being caught?  Sure.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Remorse?  That&#8217;s for plebes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you imagine the tone if the two &#8220;idealistic young lawyers&#8221; in this story had worn MAGA hats? I&#8217;m sure those young lawyers will do just fine pleading &#8220;moment of madness&#8217; in court. Mr. Spoor (a prog lawyer who has the most wonderfully occoponymous name, if you speak any Dutch at all) says that young [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[419,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2020-riots","category-crime-and-punishment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74961","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=74961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74962,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74961\/revisions\/74962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}