{"id":45326,"date":"2014-06-26T12:00:45","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T17:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=45326"},"modified":"2014-07-15T09:29:38","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T14:29:38","slug":"the-aclu-gets-one-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=45326","title":{"rendered":"The ACLU Gets One Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American Civil Liberties Union is a\u00a0&#8220;civil liberties&#8221;\u00a0group &#8211; defending the liberties that the political class east of the Hudson and West of the Sierra Madre value, first and foremost.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong &#8211; in the great scheme of things, someone has to defend the First Amendment rights of Nazis to march in Skokie, or for artists to create statues of the Virgin Mary made of cow dung.\u00a0 And it&#8217;s not going to be me &#8211; not beyond the intellectual plane with any great vigor, anyway.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the ACLU has always believed the Second Amendment was a collective right &#8211; incomprehensibly believing that while rights &#8220;of the People&#8221; in the First Amendment refer to individuals, in the Second they attach to the National Guard.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But once in a while they get one right &#8211; as in th<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thetwo-way\/2014\/06\/24\/325236889\/report-points-to-dangerous-militarization-of-u-s-law-enforcement\">e report earlier this week on the excessive militarization of the Police<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Civil Liberties Union is a\u00a0&#8220;civil liberties&#8221;\u00a0group &#8211; defending the liberties that the political class east of the Hudson and West of the Sierra Madre value, first and foremost.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t get me wrong &#8211; in the great scheme of things, someone has to defend the First Amendment rights of Nazis to march in Skokie, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[256,30,286],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fourth-amendment","category-liberty","category-police-powers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45326","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=45326"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45741,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45326\/revisions\/45741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}