{"id":77295,"date":"2021-03-26T05:37:27","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T10:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77295"},"modified":"2021-03-26T05:37:27","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T10:37:27","slug":"impunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77295","title":{"rendered":"Impunity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I&#8217;ve been thinking about impunity.\u00a0 It&#8217;s why:<\/p><p>-Black Lives Matter and Antifa can burn down cities;<\/p><p>-Keith Ellison can orchestrate a lynching;<\/p><p>-Tim Walz can imprison the whole state for an entire year;<\/p><p>-someone in the Biden Administration can send troops to kick down doors<br>in Syria;<\/p><p>-China can humiliate our diplomats in Alaska;<\/p><p>-sex fiends and pedophiles can prey on victims for years;<\/p><p>-illegal immigrants can swarm our border.<\/p><p>When people know they can get away with bad behavior, they engage in<br>more of it.\u00a0 Swift punishment deters bad behavior.\u00a0 How can we restore<br>the deterrent necessary to end bad behavior?<\/p><p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>A city without any political opposition, and a political system without any major media scrutiny, all lead to people acting with impunity. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking about impunity.\u00a0 It&#8217;s why: -Black Lives Matter and Antifa can burn down cities; -Keith Ellison can orchestrate a lynching; -Tim Walz can imprison the whole state for an entire year; -someone in the Biden Administration can send troops to kick down doorsin Syria; -China can humiliate our diplomats in Alaska; -sex fiends [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24,308,130,377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-culture-war","category-entitled-america","category-tc-media-bias","category-the-second-civil-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77295","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=77295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77296,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77295\/revisions\/77296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}