{"id":474,"date":"2002-10-17T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-10-17T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jmatt.net\/?p=474"},"modified":"2013-11-28T02:43:54","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T02:43:54","slug":"keep-america-safe-and-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=474","title":{"rendered":"Keep America Safe AND Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US Attorney General John Ashcroft, armed with the USA PATRIOT act, is doing far more than any terrorist could to destroy the freedom which makes our country great.<br \/>\nHe and his henchmen are trying to sell the idea (or just force it down our throats) that we must sacrifice freedom for safety.<br \/>\nA <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/conflict\/0,2100,55838,00.html?tw=wn_ascii\" Target=\"Offsite\">Wired News article<\/a> describes the ACLU&#8217;s new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aclu.org\/SafeandFree\/SafeandFreeMain.cfm\" Target=\"Offsite\">Keep America Safe and Free<\/a> campaign,  &#8220;saying there doesn&#8217;t have to be a choice. We can stay safe and free at the same time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Attorney General John Ashcroft, armed with the USA PATRIOT act, is doing far more than any terrorist could to destroy the freedom which makes our country great. He and his henchmen are trying to sell the idea (or just force it down our throats) that we must sacrifice freedom for safety. A Wired News&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=474\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Keep America Safe AND Free<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9mOtr-7E","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}