{"id":77038,"date":"2021-03-01T06:21:17","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T12:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77038"},"modified":"2021-03-01T06:43:24","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T12:43:24","slug":"great-minds-think-alike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77038","title":{"rendered":"Great Minds Think Alike"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>In the olden days, people and goods traveled by ship.\u00a0 Nowadays, people and goods travel by car.<\/p><p>In the olden days, pirates took ships by force, leaving people and goods stranded.\u00a0 Nowadays, carjackers take cars by force, leaving people and goods stranded.<\/p><p>In the olden days, law enforcement officials were spread too thin to prevent piracy so private persons were granted Letters of Marque allowing them to seize ships from pirates, deliver the pirates to the authorities, and keep the ships as a reward.\u00a0<\/p><p>Minnesota law enforcement officials are spread too thin<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/violent-carjackings-surge-in-minneapolis-report\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0to prevent carjacking<\/a>.\u00a0 Maybe we should . . . ?<\/p><p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week, I expressed &#8211; half tongue-in-cheek &#8211; an interest in running for Mayor of Saint Paul on the &#8220;Criminals Suck&#8221; ticket.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My platform:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Legalize &#8220;booby-trapping&#8221; (non-lethal, of course &#8211; gotta keep the plaintiff&#8217;s bar away) to catch criminals.  <\/li><li>Offer rewards for the most creative trick, trap or subterfuge a citizen uses to catch a ne&#8217;er-do-well. <\/li><li>Pay for those rewards by cutting 23 of the roughly 24 deputy mayor&#8217;s offices, the Resiliency Office, and every city office that competes with more than three Saint Paul businesses<\/li><li>Direct the City Attorney to actively participate in the defense of any citizen deemed to have a legally sound claim of self-defense against. <\/li><li>Hold a tax holiday the week of the Fourth of Jully and the week before Christmas, to get people from outside Saint Paul to actually come to Saint Paul.  <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s not really a &#8220;letter of Marque&#8221;, but the spirit is there&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the olden days, people and goods traveled by ship.\u00a0 Nowadays, people and goods travel by car. In the olden days, pirates took ships by force, leaving people and goods stranded.\u00a0 Nowadays, carjackers take cars by force, leaving people and goods stranded. In the olden days, law enforcement officials were spread too thin to prevent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-st-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77038","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=77038"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77051,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77038\/revisions\/77051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}