{"id":79827,"date":"2021-10-25T06:40:58","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T11:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79827"},"modified":"2021-10-25T06:42:28","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T11:42:28","slug":"poetic-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79827","title":{"rendered":"Poetic Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ilhan Omar, Jeremiah Ellison and Phillipe Cunningham &#8211; the three biggest champions of the &#8220;Defund the Police&#8221; madness &#8211; had a campaign rally in North Minneapolis yesterday.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was apparently sparsely attended. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Here&#39;s the problem with MPLS in a Nut Shell!!!!! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7KJ0OIAXBw\">pic.twitter.com\/7KJ0OIAXBw<\/a><\/p>&mdash; RevTimChristopher (@RevTChristopher) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RevTChristopher\/status\/1452499306473267200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 25, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>But it was the people <em>nearby <\/em>that drew the attention; audio tweet below::<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Well. This just happened at 33rd and Knox\u2026..so maybe they heard it. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pPdwVJw0q2\">pic.twitter.com\/pPdwVJw0q2<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Broken Windows Works (@Libertyfist) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Libertyfist\/status\/1452363981373456389?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 24, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>The MPD apparently doesn&#8217;t respond to shootings that don&#8217;t hit anyone anymore (although I have a hunch that&#8217;d change around Omar, Ellison, Cunningham or Lisa Bender&#8217;s houses), so the media will feel no obligation to cover it.  Although that might also have something to do with the fact that the &#8220;machine guns&#8221; involved are utterly illegal, have been for eight decades, and are still everywhere. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s enough to make you wish there were a viable politifal opposition in Minneapolis.  Because this&#8217;d be a great opportunity. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ilhan Omar, Jeremiah Ellison and Phillipe Cunningham &#8211; the three biggest champions of the &#8220;Defund the Police&#8221; madness &#8211; had a campaign rally in North Minneapolis yesterday. It was apparently sparsely attended. But it was the people nearby that drew the attention; audio tweet below:: The MPD apparently doesn&#8217;t respond to shootings that don&#8217;t hit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[427,7,17,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-22","category-crime-and-punishment","category-minneapolis","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79827","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=79827"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79830,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79827\/revisions\/79830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}