{"id":4438,"date":"2009-08-01T13:48:09","date_gmt":"2009-08-01T20:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=4438"},"modified":"2009-08-01T13:48:09","modified_gmt":"2009-08-01T20:48:09","slug":"beer-summit-solves-everything-or-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2009\/08\/01\/beer-summit-solves-everything-or-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"Beer Summit solves everything. Or nothing."},"content":{"rendered":"

Several years ago, I found the title of the perfect book to take to court when trying to avoid Jury Duty:\u00c2\u00a0 Our Enemies In Blue<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Pick up a copy, put it on your book-shelf, and eagerly pull it out when summoned with the notification — as an experiment.<\/p>\n

The great footnote in the history of the Obama Administration passed everyone, received its fifteen minutes of hub, beer choices dissected, sociography studied — can’t just be Obama, the cop, and the professor — got to balance the racial scales with Biden<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 Media descended, stood at long range with cameras — all quite ridiculous, really.<\/p>\n

Nothing much comes out of this.\u00c2\u00a0 We have two new celebrities.\u00c2\u00a0 Officer Crowley, the man who abused his power, and Professor Gates, the man who was guilty of the great crime of “Contempt of Cop”.\u00c2\u00a0 Crowley apparently finding the loophole for arrest by getting the man outside the house, thus making “disorderly conduct” feasible — if you’re in the mind to see it as such.\u00c2\u00a0 The police report already disposed as\u00c2\u00a0fictitious in that the only part verifiable, the 911 call, was ficitious.\u00c2\u00a0 As examples of a wanton police state go, this is actually negligible enough — worse than that is this<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0or this<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 (Or, this<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

After the hub-bub of the “Beer Summit”, I’ll not so much put aside the racial component as get back to it from a separate angle.\u00c2\u00a0 I am well aware of the small “c” conservative\u00c2\u00a0and understandable\u00c2\u00a0deference to\u00c2\u00a0police that\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0holds much public opinion behind Officer Crowley.\u00c2\u00a0 It is a tough job, somebody’s got to do it, and a “baddie” can jump right out at any time.\u00c2\u00a0 It is from this starting point of “on guard” that we arrive at the anonymous LAPD officer writing for the National Review these well travelled fascistic comments<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0in opposition to private property rights.\u00c2\u00a0 And it is there that we also get Rudy Giuliani’s lessons from his Mafia Father — minute in — to not question the cop<\/a>.<\/p>\n

NRA politics tends to go on about how the government is coming to take away your guns, and that will happen “FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS<\/a>!”\u00c2\u00a0 I suppose the part where this Vinn Diagram between the “deference to the police” and “Proud ‘Gun Nut'” meets hasn’t worked out the contradiction — when that fateful day comes\u00c2\u00a0for the\u00c2\u00a0government gun confiscation, it would be a police agency.\u00c2\u00a0 Either that, or it may be that a fear of the gun confiscation is an example of\u00c2\u00a0 “White Male Privilege”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Several years ago, I found the title of the perfect book to take to court when trying to avoid Jury Duty:\u00c2\u00a0 Our Enemies In Blue.\u00c2\u00a0 Pick up a copy, put it on your book-shelf, and eagerly pull it out when summoned with the notification — as an experiment. The great footnote in the history of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4438"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4440,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4438\/revisions\/4440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}