{"id":47179,"date":"2014-09-17T07:00:57","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T12:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=47179"},"modified":"2019-10-30T07:05:20","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T12:05:20","slug":"the-democrats-war-on-the-first-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=47179","title":{"rendered":"The Democrats&#8217; War On The First Amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Williamson&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/387877\/democrats-push-criminalize-dissent-kevin-d-williamson\">conclusion<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The only thing stopping federal authorities from suffocating free speech \u2014 not only by independent groups such as the SBA List, but by individuals, trade groups, National Review, and the New York Times \u2014 is the First Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>And Harry Reid wants to gut it. Figure out why that is and you\u2019ll know everything you need to know about the Democratic party, which with each passing day functions less and less like a political party and more like a crime syndicate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What led him to the conclusion?<\/p>\n<p>Well, here&#8217;s the opener:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dissent is the highest form of patriotism. Dissent is the lowest form of crime. If you are a drone in the hive of the Left, it is possible \u2014 easy, in fact \u2014 to believe both of those things at the same time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just read the whole thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Williamson&#8217;s conclusion: The only thing stopping federal authorities from suffocating free speech \u2014 not only by independent groups such as the SBA List, but by individuals, trade groups, National Review, and the New York Times \u2014 is the First Amendment. And Harry Reid wants to gut it. Figure out why that is and you\u2019ll [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,30,255],"tags":[289],"class_list":["post-47179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-liberty","category-the-racket","tag-kevin-williamson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47179","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=47179"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72541,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47179\/revisions\/72541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}