{"id":82862,"date":"2022-07-20T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82862"},"modified":"2022-07-19T16:06:32","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T21:06:32","slug":"ilhan-omars-red-carpet-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82862","title":{"rendered":"Red Carpet Walk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There was a &#8220;civil disobedience&#8221; action in DC yesterday.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For those who need a refresher:  &#8220;civil disobedience&#8221; means breaking the law, and accepting the consequences of that action, to illustrate what one considers a wrong.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rep Omar was among &#8220;several female members of Congress&#8221; &#8220;arrested&#8221; yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And when I say &#8220;arrested&#8221;, I mean&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, watch the video below.    Representative Omar walks across the area in front of the cameras, hands seemingly cuffed behind her, until second :17 &#8211; the last second of the footage:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And then, when she&#8217;s out of frame&#8230;<\/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\">Among many reports of multiple female Members of Congress include <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IlhanMN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ilhanmn<\/a> being arrested this video has been posted on Facebook which shows a woman who appears to be Rep Omar in handcuffs <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/biXuYIjMFS\">pic.twitter.com\/biXuYIjMFS<\/a><\/p>&mdash; esme murphy (@esmemurphy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/esmemurphy\/status\/1549460949492457477?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 19, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>She raises her right arm. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The &#8220;Handcuffs&#8221; weren&#8217;t even theatrical.  They were nonexistant.  She <em>pretended <\/em>to be cuffed when she walked across the PR equivalent of a red f****ng carpet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not much in the way of consequences, was it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The social media uproar was such that even Omar&#8217;s semi-official PR flak, Esme Murphy, had to point it out:<\/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\">Correction : it\u2019s not clear in this video of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IlhanMN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ilhanmn<\/a> that she is in handcuffs &#8211; staff says she has been taken into custody along with other MOC during a pro abortion rights protest &#8211; it looks at the end of the clip that she is not in cuffs <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PLtGJ2dR5C\">pic.twitter.com\/PLtGJ2dR5C<\/a><\/p>&mdash; esme murphy (@esmemurphy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/esmemurphy\/status\/1549465159919353856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 19, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Now &#8211; if we <em>had <\/em>some sort of institution in this country, perhaps with transmitters and printing presses, staffed by some self-styled monastic searchers for institutional fact and truth, someone might ask Omar how it is she managed to get &#8220;arrested&#8221; without ever getting handcuffed.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If only. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a &#8220;civil disobedience&#8221; action in DC yesterday. For those who need a refresher: &#8220;civil disobedience&#8221; means breaking the law, and accepting the consequences of that action, to illustrate what one considers a wrong. Rep Omar was among &#8220;several female members of Congress&#8221; &#8220;arrested&#8221; yesterday. And when I say &#8220;arrested&#8221;, I mean&#8230; Well, watch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82862","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=82862"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82866,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82862\/revisions\/82866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}