{"id":20122,"date":"2013-05-06T08:13:46","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T12:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=20122"},"modified":"2020-07-06T10:48:34","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T14:48:34","slug":"qotd-this-seems-like-a-bad-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/05\/06\/qotd-this-seems-like-a-bad-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: This seems like a bad idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A Florida county sheriff is being given a million dollars to violate the rights of the people who were stupid enough to put him in office.<\/p>\n<p>According to an article by <em>Palm Beach Post<\/em> staff writers Dara Kam and Stacey Singer, posted Monday, April 29, Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw has been awarded $1 million by Florida House and Senate budget leaders for a new &#8220;violence prevention unit aimed at preventing tragedies like those in Newtown, Connecticut and Aurora, Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>It would be bad enough if this particular jackbooted thug planned only to use this ill-gotten tax money for the usual militarized toys \u2014 machineguns or armored personnel carriers \u2014 the cops are so crazy about today, but Bradshaw reportedly wants to create &#8220;prevention intervention units&#8221; consisting of &#8220;specially trained deputies, mental health professionals, and caseworkers&#8221;. which &#8220;will respond to citizen calls to a 24-hour hotline with a knock on the door and a referral to services&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want people to call us if the guy down the street says he hates the government&#8230;&#8221; the Big-Brotherly Bradshaw bloviated. &#8220;What does it hurt to have somebody knock on a door and ask, &#8216;Hey, is everything OK?'&#8221; Since the cops these days do their knocking with a three-foot concrete-filled section of four-inch diameter steel pipe, with welded rebar handles, Bradshaw&#8217;s stupid question tends to answer itelf. <\/p>\n<p>L. Neil Smith, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncc-1776.org\/tle2013\/tle719-20130505-02.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Cutting the Root of Tyranny&#8221;, <em>Libertarian Enterprise<\/em><\/a>, 2013-05-06<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Florida county sheriff is being given a million dollars to violate the rights of the people who were stupid enough to put him in office. According to an article by Palm Beach Post staff writers Dara Kam and Stacey Singer, posted Monday, April 29, Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw has been awarded $1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10,41,13],"tags":[120,1382,906,725,98,154,217],"class_list":["post-20122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-liberty","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-florida","tag-lneilsmith","tag-mentalhealth","tag-militarization","tag-police","tag-privacy","tag-rights"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-5ey","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20122"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58484,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20122\/revisions\/58484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}