{"id":13510,"date":"2010-09-15T05:44:51","date_gmt":"2010-09-15T10:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=13510"},"modified":"2010-09-15T06:06:21","modified_gmt":"2010-09-15T11:06:21","slug":"freedom-of-acceptable-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=13510","title":{"rendered":"Freedom Of Acceptable Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. D. at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnpost.com\/mnblogcabin\/2010\/09\/15\/21438\/mr_dilettante_a_rough_week_for_the_first_amendment\">MinnPost<\/a> and over at <a href=\"http:\/\/mrdilettante.blogspot.com\/\">the Neighborhood<\/a> points out that it&#8217;s been a rough week for the First Amendment, what with Kathleen Sibelius calling down the smack on Obamacare critics and Justice Breyer pondering making the whole nation a crowded theater (for purposes of protecting Qu&#8217;rans, anyway).<\/p>\n<p>And he asks an interesting question:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I don&#8217;t mean to be flip about this, but let&#8217;s ask a hypothetical: would it be okay to burn a Koran if it were wrapped in an American flag? And if not, on what basis should the Koran (or a Bible) be afforded greater protection than an American flag?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That whole &#8220;government of laws, not men&#8221; thing is looking pretty sick these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. D. at MinnPost and over at the Neighborhood points out that it&#8217;s been a rough week for the First Amendment, what with Kathleen Sibelius calling down the smack on Obamacare critics and Justice Breyer pondering making the whole nation a crowded theater (for purposes of protecting Qu&#8217;rans, anyway). And he asks an interesting question: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13510"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13513,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13510\/revisions\/13513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}