{"id":34692,"date":"2021-11-22T13:50:01","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T19:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=34692"},"modified":"2021-11-22T13:50:01","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T19:50:01","slug":"shouldnt-we-just-use-the-right-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/11\/22\/shouldnt-we-just-use-the-right-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Shouldn’t We Just Use The Right Words?"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Orwell said, eh<\/a>? WaPo’s<\/strong><\/em> headline could be a lot shorter and more accurate:<\/p>\n

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80 looters simultaneously broke into a Nordstrom near San Francisco, police say: \u2018Clearly a planned event\u2019 in weekend filled with looting incidents<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Just call it fucking GANG ACTIVITY and be done with it – but apparently WaPo<\/strong><\/em> cannot use that word. But a coordinated attack and theft by multiple members is simply a gang<\/strong> at work, and RICO<\/strong><\/a>, which can increase penalties, often applies to illegal gang<\/strong> activities.<\/p>\n

Gang gang gang<\/strong>. Is this a problem with the economy, or with state policies, as the article implies?<\/p>\n

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Jim Dudley, a retired San Francisco Police officer who now teaches criminal justice at San Francisco State University, said the burglaries might be the result of a \u201cperfect storm\u201d created by corporations and policymakers in California, where many retailers have \u201cno chase\u201d policies regarding shoplifters and where\u00a0at least $950 of merchandise<\/a> must be stolen for state prosecutors to press felony charges.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As Orwell said, eh? WaPo’s headline could be a lot shorter and more accurate: 80 looters simultaneously broke into a Nordstrom near San Francisco, police say: \u2018Clearly a planned event\u2019 in weekend filled with looting incidents Just call it fucking GANG ACTIVITY and be done with it – but apparently \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34693,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34692\/revisions\/34693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}