{"id":78660,"date":"2021-07-09T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=78660"},"modified":"2021-07-08T09:57:31","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T14:57:31","slug":"as-if-on-cue-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=78660","title":{"rendered":"As If On Cue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p>Keith Ellison has wielded in effect unlimited power for this past year, under Governor Klink&#8217;s emergency powers.  Ellison has in effect been the Sammy Gravano to Tim Walz&#8217;s John Gotti &#8211; the muscle of the enterprise, making examples of business who didn&#8217;t knuckle under on command.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I mused at one point or another over this past year that it was inevitable that Ellison would turn out to have been a firebrand for liberty, if Republican were ever try try to abuse emergency power. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Was I right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>T<a href=\"https:\/\/alphanewsmn.com\/ellison-argued-against-emergency-powers-when-a-republican-was-governor\/\">hey don&#8217;t call it &#8220;Berg&#8217;s Seventh Law&#8221; for nothing.<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThere is absolutely nothing more important than safeguarding the liberty of the people we are charged to represent,\u201d Ellison&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.house.leg.state.mn.us\/hjvid\/84\/1508\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>&nbsp;before the Minnesota Legislature when he was a state representative in 2005. This statement came during a debate about what powers the government should enjoy during times of emergency. At that time, Republican Tim Pawlenty was Minnesota\u2019s governor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere should be a sunset in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.revisor.mn.gov\/bills\/bill.php?f=HF1555&amp;y=2005&amp;ssn=0&amp;b=house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this bill<\/a>&nbsp;[to provide emergency powers], we should be forced to look at this stuff on a regular basis. We should have to come back to see what works and what doesn\u2019t and review this stuff \u2026 we are in an evolving situation as it relates to what we know,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope we put ourselves in a position where we have to look at this again,\u201d then-representative Ellison concluded. \u201cThere absolutely should be a sunset provision in here, and we\u2019ve got to look at this thing on a regular basis, and tweak it and work it and massage it until it fits with our constitutionally-mandated duty.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>What a difference a couple of years of absolute power makes, huh? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keith Ellison has wielded in effect unlimited power for this past year, under Governor Klink&#8217;s emergency powers. Ellison has in effect been the Sammy Gravano to Tim Walz&#8217;s John Gotti &#8211; the muscle of the enterprise, making examples of business who didn&#8217;t knuckle under on command. I mused at one point or another over this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78660","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=78660"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78686,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78660\/revisions\/78686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}