{"id":1119,"date":"2010-04-16T09:17:05","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T16:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=1119"},"modified":"2010-04-16T09:17:05","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T16:17:05","slug":"daryl-gates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/16\/daryl-gates\/","title":{"rendered":"Daryl Gates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ding-dong, the Wicked Witch is dead. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-daryl-gates17-2010apr17,0,906055.story\" target=\"_blank\">Daryl Gates<\/a>, the man who created the modern SWAT team, invented the Big Brotherish D.A.R.E. program, and who said that casual drug users should be shot as &#8220;traitors&#8221; in the war on drugs, has died at 83.<\/p>\n<p>Too bad it wasn&#8217;t decades sooner, before he had a chance to do so much damage, and too bad he left so many like-minded thugs to carry out his sick vision of law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>The SWAT team was a good concept for handling extreme emergencies. But being born in the mind of a violent, lying, racist, piggish man who saw innocent citizens as enemies to be slaughtered without benefit of due process, its catastrophic misuse was inevitable. <\/p>\n<p>Gates is as responsible as any other individual for the police-state ruination of the country that once was the U.S.A.<\/p>\n<p>Good damn riddance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ding-dong, the Wicked Witch is dead. Daryl Gates, the man who created the modern SWAT team, invented the Big Brotherish D.A.R.E. program, and who said that casual drug users should be shot as &#8220;traitors&#8221; in the war on drugs, has died at 83. Too bad it wasn&#8217;t decades sooner, before he had a chance to do so much damage, and too bad he left so many like-minded thugs to carry out his sick vision of law enforcement. The SWAT team was a good concept for handling extreme emergencies. But being born in the mind of a violent, lying, racist, piggish&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/16\/daryl-gates\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Daryl Gates<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}