{"id":1363,"date":"2011-01-08T23:30:06","date_gmt":"2011-01-09T04:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/?p=1363"},"modified":"2011-01-08T23:30:48","modified_gmt":"2011-01-09T04:30:48","slug":"shooting-the-bastards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/shooting-the-bastards\/","title":{"rendered":"Shooting The Bastards"},"content":{"rendered":"

The massacre in Arizona is the fault of Fox News, Bill O’Riely, Glen Beck and Sara Palin according to every lefty on Facebook and various prominent idiots<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Hey, here’s a thought \u00e2\u20ac\u201c why not blame it on the ONLY person responsible \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the whack job who did it.<\/p>\n

Naw, too easy.\u00c2\u00a0 We must blame politicians and pundits we don’t like.\u00c2\u00a0 Ok, I’ll play along.\u00c2\u00a0 Let’s blame the politicians who have made it is impossible for anyone to get elected unless they’re a Democrat or a Republican. Let’s blame those who, through gerrymandering, election laws and media manipulation game the system so thoroughly that incumbents get re-elected 95%+ of the time.\u00c2\u00a0 That would be, let’s see, approximately, all <\/em>of them.<\/p>\n

Political writer Claire Wolfe said, “America is at that awkward stage. It’s too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.” She said that fifteen years ago, before the TSA,\u00c2\u00a0 before Real ID, before the PATRIOT act, before extraordinary rendition, before the militarization of the police, before the thousands of big and little laws and regulations that are relentlessly driving us toward becoming a police state.<\/p>\n

We shouldn’t be surprised that some people are so incensed at the impossibility of change through established channels they resort to shooting the bastards. We should be surprised (and grateful) it doesn’t happen a lot more often.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The massacre in Arizona is the fault of Fox News, Bill O’Riely, Glen Beck and Sara Palin according to every lefty on Facebook and various prominent idiots.\u00c2\u00a0 Hey, here’s a thought \u00e2\u20ac\u201c why not blame it on the ONLY person responsible \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the whack job who did it. Naw, too easy.\u00c2\u00a0 We must blame politicians […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1363"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1366,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363\/revisions\/1366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}