{"id":8708,"date":"2020-06-04T15:04:21","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T19:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=8708"},"modified":"2020-06-05T00:34:33","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T04:34:33","slug":"rules-for-rioters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=8708","title":{"rendered":"Rules for rioters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I had business outside today.  I needed to go in towards Philly, closer to the riots, to get a new PSU put into the Great Beast. I went armed; I&#8217;ve been carrying  at all times awake since Philadelphia started to burn and there were occasional reports of looters heading into the suburbs in other cities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I knew I might be heading into civil unrest today. It didn&#8217;t happen. But it still could.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore I&#8217;m announcing my rules of engagement should any of the riots connected with the atrocious murder of George Floyd reach the vicinity of my person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>I will shoot any person engaging  in arson or other life-threatening behavior, issuing a warning to cease first if safety permits.<\/li><li>Blacks and other minorities are otherwise safe from my gun; they have a legitimate grievance in the matter of this murder, and what they&#8217;re doing to their own neighborhoods and lives will be punishment enough for the utter folly of their means of expression once the dust settles. <\/li><li>White rioters, on the other hand, will be presumed to be Antifa Communists attempting to manipulate this tragedy for Communist political ends; them I consider &#8220;enemies-general of all mankind, to be dealt with as wolves are&#8221; and will shoot immediately, without mercy or warning.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>UPDATE:  I didn&#8217;t mention white nationalists because I judge my chances of encountering any member of that tiny, ineffectual movement to be effectively zero, and I refuse to cooperate with the mass-media fiction that they are a significant factor in this crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We don\u2019t have a problem with white nationalists attempting to burn down our country using black people as tools and proxies. We have a problem with Communists doing that. I insist on naming &#8211; and if necessary, shooting &#8211; the real enemy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had business outside today. I needed to go in towards Philly, closer to the riots, to get a new PSU put into the Great Beast. I went armed; I&#8217;ve been carrying at all times awake since Philadelphia started to burn and there were occasional reports of looters heading into the suburbs in other cities.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=8708\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rules for rioters<\/span><\/a><\/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-8708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8708"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8711,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8708\/revisions\/8711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}