{"id":90222,"date":"2026-05-19T08:51:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T13:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=90222"},"modified":"2026-05-19T08:51:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T13:51:13","slug":"self-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=90222","title":{"rendered":"Self-Help"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Joe Doakes, erstwhile of Como Park, emails:Hind Rocket at Powerline reports on the Cuban Drone crisis, saying, &#8220;Cuba is a great example of how long an incompetent, tyrannical and utterly discredited regime can hold on to power as long as it has a monopoly on guns.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Remember my suggestion about delivering Liberator pistols to Iran so the people could effect their own regime change?\u00a0 Cuba is even easier.\u00a0 We could hand them out from the gate at Gitmo.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Joe Doakes<\/div>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Sure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And given Cuban mechanics&#8217; facility at keeping old cars going, I&#8217;d think sending the <a href=\"_wp_link_placeholder\" data-wplink-edit=\"true\">plans for Sten guns<\/a> to Cuba might work, too&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes, erstwhile of Como Park, emails:Hind Rocket at Powerline reports on the Cuban Drone crisis, saying, &#8220;Cuba is a great example of how long an incompetent, tyrannical and utterly discredited regime can hold on to power as long as it has a monopoly on guns.&#8221; \u00a0 Remember my suggestion about delivering Liberator pistols to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90222","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=90222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90224,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90222\/revisions\/90224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}