{"id":90147,"date":"2026-02-19T07:53:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T13:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=90147"},"modified":"2026-02-19T07:53:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T13:53:36","slug":"george-wallace-on-line-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=90147","title":{"rendered":"George Wallace On Line 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>And\u00a0<em>poof<\/em>, just like\u00a0<em>that<\/em>, people who <em>always\u00a0<\/em>venerated &#8220;due process&#8221; and chanted &#8220;NO KINGS&#8221; on demand&#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\">Should Minneapolis deny liquor licenses to hotels that housed ICE agents? City Council debates it. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3X5fNUBMzZ\">https:\/\/t.co\/3X5fNUBMzZ<\/a><\/p>&mdash; The Minnesota Star Tribune (@StarTribune) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StarTribune\/status\/2023917923677491325?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 18, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;had\u00a0<em>always\u00a0<\/em>opposed due process and believed themselves kings.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not news &#8211; liquor licensing has always been a political meat tenderizer, used to beat businesses into whatever the powers that be want the business to comply with, frequently things most of us agree with (like punishing flagrant serving of minors or lots of unchecked brawling. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But to &#8220;punish&#8221; businesses for patronizing a class of people who are doing something completely legal?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And\u00a0poof, just like\u00a0that, people who always\u00a0venerated &#8220;due process&#8221; and chanted &#8220;NO KINGS&#8221; on demand&#8230; &#8230;had\u00a0always\u00a0opposed due process and believed themselves kings.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not news &#8211; liquor licensing has always been a political meat tenderizer, used to beat businesses into whatever the powers that be want the business to comply with, frequently things most of us [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minneapolis","category-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90147","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=90147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90148,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90147\/revisions\/90148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}