{"id":2154,"date":"2010-07-03T11:10:39","date_gmt":"2008-07-04T00:30:46","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-15T10:35:17","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=2154","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;America was neither founded, nor freed, by the well-behaved.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>   \u2014Semmes Luckett, a Clarksdale, Mississippi lawyer  (who I am informed represented many Mississippi school districts in resisting desegregation, which is borne out by looking at his cases on Westlaw or Lexis)<\/p>\n<p>Today, read Thomas Paine&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earlyamerica.com\/earlyamerica\/milestones\/commonsense\/text.html\">Common Sense<\/a>, February 14, 1776, and then the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earlyamerica.com\/earlyamerica\/freedom\/doi\/\">Declaration of Independence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is my July 4th ritual. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Correction and Update:<\/strong> In a discussion Feb. 24, 2010 with Gerald Goldstein, I discovered that this quote is from Semmes Luckett the younger, the son of the lawyer mentioned above. This Semmes Luckett was a 1959 college roommate and longtime friend of Hunter S. Thompson. See <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=nQHSrweGY4YC&amp;pg=PA76&amp;dq=semmes+luckett&amp;ei=aPGHS_fZL6e8yATKjty8Dg&amp;cd=4#v=onepage&amp;q=semmes%20luckett&amp;f=false\">Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson<\/a> (Beef Torrey and Kevin Simonson, eds.) 77-78 (2008).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=2154\">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-2154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154","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=2154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}