{"id":89853,"date":"2025-08-20T07:13:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T12:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89853"},"modified":"2025-08-20T07:13:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T12:13:54","slug":"89853","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89853","title":{"rendered":"Sicily On The Mississippi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Can a civil society survive when society spends more time and effort protecting criminals than the law-abiding citizen?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Mayor of Boston just made her, and presumably her city&#8217;s, priorities pretty visible:<\/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\">ICYMI: A knife-wielding man tried stabbing people inside a Boston Chick-fil-A.<br><br>An off-duty cop stopped him \u2014 saved lives. \ud83d\udc6e\u200d\u2642\ufe0f<br><br>Mayor <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/michellewu?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MichelleWu<\/a>? She gave condolences\u2026 to the attacker\u2019s family. \ud83e\udd26\u200d\u2642\ufe0f<br><br>No praise for the officer. No comfort for the victims. Just sympathy for the\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dckgaJmEib\">pic.twitter.com\/dckgaJmEib<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Jake (@JakeCan72) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JakeCan72\/status\/1957241472014762159?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 18, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, you might say it costs nobody anything &#8211; the victims are alive, the attacker dead.  Expressing (misplaced) sympathy isn&#8217;t going to kill him again, or endanger the victims. Is it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I see your logic, and raise you Mary Moriarty (open and expand the thread):<\/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\">You may have seen the headlines a couple weeks ago about a downtown Minneapolis Lotus employee being randomly attacked when he took out the garbage.<br><br>The teen employee is a student of jiu-jitsu and fought back in self-defense, while the suspect proceeded to bite the victim\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SXiPFVIRuV\">pic.twitter.com\/SXiPFVIRuV<\/a><\/p>&mdash; CrimeWatchMpls (@CrimeWatchMpls) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CrimeWatchMpls\/status\/1957240614409601278?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 18, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>But here&#8217;s the money quote:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">A source familiar with the case told us that charges were declined by Mary Moriarty&#8217;s office because the victim was able to fight back.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Got that?<\/p>\n<p>If you\u00a0<em>defend yourself<\/em>, that&#8217;s all the justice you need.\u00a0 (How much do you want to bet the intended victim only evaded assault charges because he was a teenager?)<\/p>\n<p>We are getting to the point where the lesson is the one people in all low-trust societies eventually get to; it&#8217;s better to handle &#8220;Justice&#8221; by yourself.\u00a0 To do the job, to not talk to the police &#8211; even enforce the practice &#8211; and make offender examples on your own.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d ask &#8220;is this what you want&#8221;, but this\u00a0<em>is\u00a0<\/em> the DFL we&#8217;re talking about.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can a civil society survive when society spends more time and effort protecting criminals than the law-abiding citizen? The Mayor of Boston just made her, and presumably her city&#8217;s, priorities pretty visible: Now, you might say it costs nobody anything &#8211; the victims are alive, the attacker dead. Expressing (misplaced) sympathy isn&#8217;t going to kill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,20,17,320,426,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-democrats","category-minneapolis","category-mndfl","category-orwell-overestimated-democrats","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89853","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=89853"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89856,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89853\/revisions\/89856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}