{"id":56272,"date":"2015-11-25T06:00:44","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T12:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=56272"},"modified":"2015-11-24T08:50:20","modified_gmt":"2015-11-24T14:50:20","slug":"giving-up-freedom-for-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=56272","title":{"rendered":"Giving Up Freedom For Security&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>France&#8217;s &#8220;state of emergency&#8221; is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/11\/24\/world\/europe\/in-france-some-see-the-police-security-net-as-too-harsh-paris-attacks.html?_r=0\">trampling whatever civil liberties the French may have actually thought they had<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Which, on the one hand, highlights what a different place the US is &#8211; where fundamental human rights are endowed by our creator, not an allowance from a benificent state (although big government has been leaching that away for decades, too).<\/p>\n<p>And on the other, shows how fragile the freedoms are that we take for granted.<\/p>\n<p>It also shows why the most important piece of gun legislation signed by Governor Dayton this past session was the law barring the State from confiscating legal guns during a &#8220;state of emergency&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France&#8217;s &#8220;state of emergency&#8221; is trampling whatever civil liberties the French may have actually thought they had. Which, on the one hand, highlights what a different place the US is &#8211; where fundamental human rights are endowed by our creator, not an allowance from a benificent state (although big government has been leaching that away [&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-56272","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\/56272","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=56272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56273,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56272\/revisions\/56273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}