{"id":46242,"date":"2014-08-07T06:00:27","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T11:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=46242"},"modified":"2014-08-06T15:12:56","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T20:12:56","slug":"leading-by-example","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=46242","title":{"rendered":"Leading By Example"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A New Jersey cop responds to a citizen&#8217;s allegations about his First and Fourth Amendment rights being violated:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T9BQDJZ42w0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI\u2019ve made you objections (sic) about what\u2019s going on at the shelter over there,&#8221; [an animal rights activist] told the cop. &#8220;My 1st and 4th Amendment rights were violated &#8211; my civil rights were violated&#8230;\u201d<br \/>\nThe Helmetta police officer replied, \u201cObama just decimated the freakin\u2019 Constitution, so I don\u2019t give a damn. If he doesn\u2019t follow the Constitution, we don\u2019t have to.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just a crabby cop having a bad day and picking a lame excuse?<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps.<\/p>\n<p>But our founding fathers understood better than our generation does that freedom only survives when &#8220;the authorities&#8221; respect the idea.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And to too many of them, it&#8217;s just not there.\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Remember when Obama&#8217;s purported skills as a &#8220;constitutional law professor&#8221; were supposedly an asset?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A New Jersey cop responds to a citizen&#8217;s allegations about his First and Fourth Amendment rights being violated: \u201cI\u2019ve made you objections (sic) about what\u2019s going on at the shelter over there,&#8221; [an animal rights activist] told the cop. &#8220;My 1st and 4th Amendment rights were violated &#8211; my civil rights were violated&#8230;\u201d The Helmetta [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[256,30,286,100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fourth-amendment","category-liberty","category-police-powers","category-your-papers-please"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46242","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=46242"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46245,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46242\/revisions\/46245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}