{"id":74636,"date":"2020-07-13T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74636"},"modified":"2020-07-11T08:39:42","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T13:39:42","slug":"but-mitch-why-does-bergs-twentieth-law-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74636","title":{"rendered":"“But Mitch – Why Does Berg’s Twentieth Law Exist?”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’ll cop to it – I’ve been pretty cynical about “hate crimes” lately. Let’s stipulate in advance – they do happen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Berg’s 20th Law<\/a> – “All incidents of ‘hate speech’ not captured on video (involving being delivered by someone proven not to be a ringer) shall be assumed to be hoaxes until proven otherwise” – is a law for a reason. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or, rather, many, many reasons<\/a> – including this one from, what else, a poitician from the west coast:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jonathan Lopez, who is Latino and was a recent candidate for Umatilla County commissioner, claimed he discovered the hate-filled missive in his mailbox on June 23, the East Oregonian reported<\/a>.<\/p>

On his now-deleted Facebook account, he shared a photo of the letter, which said that Lopez and other \u201cMexicans\u201d were \u201cnot welcome here,\u201d according to local news station KEPR-TV<\/a>.<\/p>

\u201cDon\u2019t waste your time trying to become anything in this county we will make sure you never win and your family suffers along with all the other f\u2013king Mexicans in the area!\u201d the letter said.<\/p>

Lopez wrote in the post that he \u201cholds no resentment for whomever wrote this,\u201d the outlet reported.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Oh, I bet he holds some <\/em>resentment for the writer – or at least the writer’s judgment<\/a>…:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur investigation has shown that Mr. Lopez wrote the letter himself and made false statements to the police and on social media,\u201d Hermiston Police Chief Jason Edmiston told the East Oregonian.<\/p>

\u201cThe end result is a verbal and written admission by Mr. Lopez that the letter was fabricated.\u201d<\/p>

Edmiston said the case would be forwarded to the Umatilla County District Attorney\u2019s Office for review on charges for initiating a false report.<\/p>

\u201cThis investigation is particularly frustrating as we are in the midst of multiple major investigations while battling a resource shortage due to the current pandemic,\u201d Edmiston told the outlet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

In a party where reputations and political capital are ever-more based on intersectional virtue-signaling and dog-whistling, politicians are gonna virtue signal and dog-whistle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, presuming the guy’s a Democrat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because Mr. Lopez’s party is never mentioned in the article. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Weird, huh? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ll cop to it – I’ve been pretty cynical about “hate crimes” lately. Let’s stipulate in advance – they do happen. But Berg’s 20th Law – “All incidents of ‘hate speech’ not captured on video (involving being delivered by someone proven not to be a ringer) shall be assumed to be hoaxes until proven otherwise” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[420,24,20,18],"tags":[375],"class_list":["post-74636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancelled","category-culture-war","category-democrats","category-pc","tag-bergs-20th-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74636"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74638,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74636\/revisions\/74638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}