{"id":75223,"date":"2020-09-11T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75223"},"modified":"2020-09-09T09:19:37","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T14:19:37","slug":"the-phantom-boogeyman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75223","title":{"rendered":"The Phantom Boogeyman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Salem had &#8220;witches&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The far right <em>and <\/em>far left in Europe from the middle ages through the 1940s (and beyond) had &#8220;Jews&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jordan, Minnesota had &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20100510160346\/http:\/\/www.a-team.org\/scott_county.html\">satanists<\/a>&#8220;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And Governor Klink and Mayor McDreamy had &#8220;white supremacists&#8221;.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It seems like such a long time ago that Big Left <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=9757\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"9757\">started predicting an imminent wave of &#8220;right wing white <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4589\">supremacist<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=9757\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"9757\"> terrorism<\/a>&#8220;.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And, like OJ, they are still looking:<\/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\">Of dozens of people charged with crimes related to the riots following George Floyd&#39;s killing, none has been publicly linked to white nationalist groups, despite reports of racial attacks, harassment and vandalism, many on Minneapolis&#39; North Side.  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ljTAOpLR5I\">https:\/\/t.co\/ljTAOpLR5I<\/a><\/p>&mdash; The Minnesota Star Tribune (@StarTribune) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StarTribune\/status\/1301686417530130432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 4, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This notion &#8211; that Big Left has been getting ready to launch a violent war against dissent, while <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75199\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"75199\">blaming mostly-phantom &#8220;right wingers<\/a>&#8221; &#8211; is where Berg&#8217;s Seventh Law ceases to be funny.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salem had &#8220;witches&#8221;. The far right and far left in Europe from the middle ages through the 1940s (and beyond) had &#8220;Jews&#8221;. Jordan, Minnesota had &#8220;satanists&#8220;. And Governor Klink and Mayor McDreamy had &#8220;white supremacists&#8221;. It seems like such a long time ago that Big Left started predicting an imminent wave of &#8220;right wing white [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[419,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2020-riots","category-minneapolis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75223","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=75223"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75267,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75223\/revisions\/75267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}