{"id":186417,"date":"2014-01-26T20:35:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T01:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/01\/26\/not-enough-bullets-59\/"},"modified":"2014-01-26T20:35:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T01:35:00","slug":"not-enough-bullets-59","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/01\/26\/not-enough-bullets-59\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Enough Bullets\u2026\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that the hyper wealthy think that <a href=\"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2014\/01\/billionaire-tom-perkins-fears-progressive\">people not liking them or how they make money is just like the holocaust<\/a>, &#8220;Seems like billionaire venture capitalist Tom Perkins is very, very afraid of progressives. In a <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/news\/articles\/SB10001424052702304549504579316913982034286\">letter to the Wall Street Journal<\/a>, Perkins expressed his deep fear that fascist progressives were going to burn down the city.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He actually invoked Kristallnacht: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">From the Occupy movement to the demonization of the rich embedded in virtually every word of our local newspaper, the San Francisco Chronicle, I perceive a rising tide of hatred of the successful one percent. There is outraged public reaction to the Google buses carrying technology workers from the city to the peninsula high-tech companies which employ them. We have outrage over the rising real-estate prices which these &#8220;techno geeks&#8221; can pay. We have, for example, libelous and cruel attacks in the Chronicle on our number-one celebrity, the author Danielle Steel, alleging that she is a &#8220;snob&#8221; despite the millions she has spent on our city&#8217;s homeless and mentally ill over the past decades.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is ludicrous.<\/p>\n<p>BTW, San Francisco has a law against private vehicles blocking bus-stops, as the aforementioned Google buses do.  It&#8217;s a $271 fine, and this means <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2014\/01\/23\/when_companies_break_the_law_and_people_pay_the_scary_lesson_of_the_google_bus\/\">something north of $\u00bd billion in fines have been ignored by the city by various tech firms<\/a>, because big tech is above the law.<\/p>\n<p>The idea that somehow or other, either criticism or legitimate law enforcement actions directed toward the extremely wealthy is somehow a fascist style persecution against the 0.01% is both pernicious and laughable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that the hyper wealthy think that people not liking them or how they make money is just like the holocaust, &#8220;Seems like billionaire venture capitalist Tom Perkins is very, very afraid of progressives. In a letter to the Wall Street Journal, Perkins expressed his deep fear that fascist progressives were going to burn &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[969,1011,1051,1064,1003,982,1035,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evil","category-history","category-hypocrisy","category-media","category-philosophy","category-stupid","category-transportation","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186417"}],"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=186417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}