{"id":10025,"date":"2013-12-21T08:35:09","date_gmt":"2013-12-21T08:22:54","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-21T08:22:54","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=10025","title":{"rendered":"HuffPo: Dire Civil Liberties Predictions For 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/12\/19\/dire-civil-liberties-pred_n_4473698.html\">HuffPo: Dire Civil Liberties Predictions For 2014<\/a> by Radley Balko (in The Agitator):<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As we come to the end of a year that saw revelations about massive government spying programs, horrifying stories of police abuse, and brazen violations of the Fourth Amendment, I thought I might offer my own grim predictions about where civil liberties are headed in the coming year. Sure, some of these may seem outlandish. But to borrow from H.L. Mencken, nobody ever went broke underestimating the grade and lubriciousness of the slippery slope.<\/p>\n<p>So I predict the following for 2014: &#8230; <\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>So as you&#8217;ve probably guessed by now &#8212; especially if you clicked on the links &#8212; the gag here is that none of these are actually predictions. They all happened in 2013. (A couple in 2012.)<\/p>\n<p>I will make one real prediction for 2014: It&#8217;s probably going to get worse.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=10025\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}