{"id":80313,"date":"2021-12-17T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80313"},"modified":"2021-12-17T06:53:08","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T12:53:08","slug":"a-thought-experiment-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80313","title":{"rendered":"A Thought Experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

Let’s say you had a couple bumps at a bar – like, say, 8 to 12 of them. And then decided to drive home. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You were carrying a gun, and a car full of loose ammunition. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You drove down the freeway, until you didn’t – you swerved off the road, rolled your car, scattering ammunition all over the place. You had to be extricated, in no condition for a field sobriety test. When you finally took a whiz test at the hospital, you tested at a .13 BAC – 50% above the legal limit,and a level that indicates you were likely at a .17 during the accident itself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And you’re a civilian. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do you think the county attorney is going to let you <\/em>plead out to fourth degree DUI<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m referring of course to Henco Sheriff Dave Hutchinson. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or course. you wouldn’t. At the very least, the County Attorney would put you through a legal wringer, and make sure you settled with charges that involved serious time in jail. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So – is it just county employee mutual backscratching?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now ask yourself – would Rich Stanek, the previous Sheriff and the last elected Republican of any kind in Henco, have gotten the same treatment?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Remember how the media covered his adult son’s behavior<\/em>. before you answer that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh, yeah – the media. The only media actually covering this story are the conservative alternative media <\/em>here in MInnesota:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/mitchpberg\/status\/1471233417836576768\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

So perhaps we call it “DFL Privilege?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let’s say you had a couple bumps at a bar – like, say, 8 to 12 of them. And then decided to drive home. You were carrying a gun, and a car full of loose ammunition. You drove down the freeway, until you didn’t – you swerved off the road, rolled your car, scattering ammunition […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[129,255],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unions","category-the-racket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80313","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=80313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80314,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80313\/revisions\/80314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}