{"id":27676,"date":"2021-02-12T10:15:03","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T16:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=27676"},"modified":"2021-02-12T09:27:49","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T15:27:49","slug":"thats-not-a-go-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/12\/thats-not-a-go-bag\/","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s Not A Go Bag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ky3.com\/2021\/02\/11\/go-bags-found-at-home-of-woman-who-used-megaphone-at-capitol-riot\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">\u2018Go bags\u2019 found at home of woman who used megaphone at Capitol riot<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Federal prosecutors are asking that a Pennsylvania woman arrested in connection with the Capitol insurrection remain in jail.<\/p>\n<p>They say Rachel Marie Powell, who directed fellow rioters with a megaphone during the attack, had smashed cell phones, firearm paraphernalia and \u201cgo bags\u201d at her home.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors say this evidence proves she\u2019s a danger to the community and a flight risk.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The subtext, of course, is that <em>preparing for emergencies means you&#8217;re an insurrectionist<\/em>.  Also, probably racist.<\/p>\n<p>The story has a picture of, apparently, one such go bag:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gobag.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>C&#8217;mon, man, my brother had a better set of thrown weapons when he was in middle school.<\/p>\n<p>I am not sure how far you&#8217;ll make it with one hand warmer, though.  <\/p>\n<p>Has anyone accused her on Twitter for cultural appropriation for having throwing stars?<\/p>\n<p>I am not sure why this made it to the front page of my local television station.  Perhaps the twentied-aged news aggregators want to make her look whack-a-doodle, therefore GUILTY!  DON&#8217;T BE LIKE HER!  But this is southwest Missouri, man.  People are reading the article for tips for their go bags.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story: \u2018Go bags\u2019 found at home of woman who used megaphone at Capitol riot: Federal prosecutors are asking that a Pennsylvania woman arrested in connection with the Capitol insurrection remain in jail. They say Rachel Marie Powell, who directed fellow rioters with a megaphone during the attack, had smashed cell phones, firearm paraphernalia and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27676"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27678,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27676\/revisions\/27678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}