{"id":39690,"date":"2013-11-12T08:00:40","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T14:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=39690"},"modified":"2013-12-01T18:52:28","modified_gmt":"2013-12-02T00:52:28","slug":"if-we-are-going-to-keep-calling-ourselves-the-land-of-the-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=39690","title":{"rendered":"If We Are Going To Keep Calling Ourselves &#8220;The Land Of The Free&#8221;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;then we need to see a lot more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/mark-godsey\/for-the-first-time-ever-a_b_4221000.html\">stories like this<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The only truly free society is the one where the government fears the people.<\/p>\n<p>And government today &#8211; with police and prosecutors walking all over the Fourth and Fifth Amendments, with our government spying on us and siccing the Tax Police on dissenters, and putting virtually all civil political dissent on government watchlists &#8211; is trying to achieve just the opposite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;then we need to see a lot more stories like this. The only truly free society is the one where the government fears the people. And government today &#8211; with police and prosecutors walking all over the Fourth and Fifth Amendments, with our government spying on us and siccing the Tax Police on dissenters, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-liberty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39690","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=39690"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40305,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39690\/revisions\/40305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}