{"id":77526,"date":"2021-04-20T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77526"},"modified":"2021-12-15T16:06:27","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T22:06:27","slug":"rumor-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77526","title":{"rendered":"Rumor Of War"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Chauvin trial wrapped up yesterday. As this is written, the jury is deliberating. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But well into last week, Saint Paul was strapping in. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Holiday station, Hamline at Marshall. That’s some solid woodwork on those plywood window covers. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Saint Paul is smoking ’em if they got ’em. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Laundromat, University and Pascal. At least 2-3 other buildings east and west of here burned last May. The strip mall across the street was more or less looted out – allowing the property managers to sell to the owners of “Minnesota United”. The riots were indeed very good for Saint Paul’s plutocrats. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Midway Menards hasn’t yet piled stacks of plywood in front of the store – which is the “smoke ’em if you got ’em” moment, from where I sit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some merchants are of the opinion that some kind of supplication to the crowd might buy them some grace. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’m not going to say what the store is – and I’ll block anyone who tries, and it’ll be so permanent it’ll make “Dog Gone’s” exile look like Woody Kane’s sentence<\/a>.. They’re a local, family-run business, and they were burned and looted, although not totaled out, last year. They’ve been warned to expect more of the same. Fingers crossed for all of them. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

But most of the biggest victims last year were immigrants and merchants “of color”, and there’s no reason to expect the white left-wing college kids who did most of the burning last year are going to be any different this time around. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If some legislator wants to push a bill removing “duty to retreat” and <\/em>allowing self-defense of felony-level destruction of property via lethal force, I’ll pound all the pavement they need. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or, y’know, assert the rule of law:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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DeSantis: \u201cIf you riot, you are going to jail, and you are going to have to spend time in jail. If you assault law enforcement in a violent assembly, you are definitely going to go to jail. You burn down somebody\u2019s business. …\u201dhttps:\/\/t.co\/58PwCjPfxL<\/a><\/p>— John Robb (@johnrobb) April 19, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote>