{"id":175876,"date":"2020-11-04T19:23:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T00:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/11\/04\/they-should-have-used-a-yellow-star\/"},"modified":"2020-11-04T19:23:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T00:23:00","slug":"they-should-have-used-a-yellow-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/11\/04\/they-should-have-used-a-yellow-star\/","title":{"rendered":"They Should Have Used a Yellow Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/state-watch\/524188-blue-dots-painted-in-front-of-biden-supporters-homes-in-california\">some MAGAts were tagging the streets in front of Biden Supporters&#8217; houses in Roseville, California<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is a clear threat of future violence, and it is terrorism, just the same as if they burnt a cross on their front yard:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">Residents of Roseville, Calif., have reported blue dots being spray-painted in front of homes with Biden-Harris campaign signs, local affiliate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcra.com\/article\/roseville-neighbors-say-they-were-targeted-biden-harris-signs\/34546283\">KCRA-TV reports<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Roseville resident Adam Quilici told the news outlet that he was making breakfast when a neighbor told him to look in front of his home. He said a blue dot was painted in the road in front of his house. <\/p>\n<p>Other residents told the news outlet they believe the dots were painted between Saturday and Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe houses that were targeted have Biden-Harris signs in front of them \u2014 every single one,\u201d Quilici told KCRA-TV. \u201cThere aren&#8217;t any blue dots anywhere where there are not those signs present.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Quilici called the police, according to the news outlet, and they told him that they believed him after making sure it had nothing to do with utilities. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not just a smashed pumpkin on Halloween,\u201d Quilici said. \u201cThis is like a message and I\u2019m not really OK with it.\u201d<\/span> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>People are doing things like this because they do not believe that there will be consequences for their actions.<\/p>\n<p>The first step is to disabuse these folks of that assumption, and that means arrests and prosecutions.<\/p>\n<p>To do anything else is to encourage violence and threats of violence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like some MAGAts were tagging the streets in front of Biden Supporters&#8217; houses in Roseville, California.&nbsp; This is a clear threat of future violence, and it is terrorism, just the same as if they burnt a cross on their front yard: Residents of Roseville, Calif., have reported blue dots being spray-painted in front &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[364,374,405,605,373],"class_list":["post-175876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-evil","tag-politics","tag-presidential-campaign","tag-stochastic-terrorism","tag-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175876"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}