{"id":59386,"date":"2016-06-28T05:00:34","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T10:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59386"},"modified":"2016-06-26T11:48:16","modified_gmt":"2016-06-26T16:48:16","slug":"59386","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59386","title":{"rendered":"With Nominees Like This&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It\u2019s painful to watch the Republican Presidential nominee join in clamoring for a secret, non-appealable Enemies List of un-persons who have been stripped of civil rights by some unaccountable bureaucrat in the federal administration: four years ago, no right to raise money for voter education; last year, no right to private communication by email or cell phone; today, no right to travel by air; tomorrow, no right to self-defense.\u00a0 Secret blacklists are the McCarthyism that my teachers warned me about. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">I&#8217;m going to add emphasis to this next bit:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\"><strong>How can people not see that empowering the government to decide Who has rights is empowering it to decide Nobody has rights<\/strong>?\u00a0 Sure, it\u2019s great while your guy is the President, but what if the unthinkable happens and my guy wins?\u00a0 Will you still be happy when you\u2019re on the receiving end? \u00a0Are Americans really that eager to roll back the clock to 1775, to be subjects instead of citizens, to live by sufferance instead of right?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">What\u2019s heartbreaking is the ONLY civil rights organization standing up for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nraila.org\/articles\/20160615\/nra-statement-on-terror-watchlists\"><span class=\"s2\">Due Process of Law is the NRA<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Joe Doakes<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">Not only are about half of Americans unclear on the difference between &#8220;Citizen&#8221; and &#8220;Subject&#8221;, but a good chunk of them actively yearn to be subjects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Provided nobody tells them who to marry or whether they can get an abortion&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8230;are you seeing a pattern yet?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: It\u2019s painful to watch the Republican Presidential nominee join in clamoring for a secret, non-appealable Enemies List of un-persons who have been stripped of civil rights by some unaccountable bureaucrat in the federal administration: four years ago, no right to raise money for voter education; last year, no right [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,308],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-entitled-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59386","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=59386"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59399,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59386\/revisions\/59399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}