{"id":4387,"date":"2010-07-06T15:39:32","date_gmt":"2010-07-04T00:07:22","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-03T11:18:06","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=4387","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;America was neither founded, nor freed, by the well-behaved.&#8221; Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/blog\/index.php?blog=1&amp;title=title_353&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1\">&#8220;America was neither founded, nor freed, by the well-behaved,&#8221;<\/a> posted July 4, 2008.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/07\/02\/thoughts-on-a-declaration\/\">Thoughts on a Declaration<\/a> from the NY Times on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the part time patriots who suddenly discovered the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and other founding documents only after the election of an African-American President, I must point out that I&#8217;ve been mentioning them here every July 4th since going online in 2003. &#8220;We the People&#8221; was always an important concept to this civil libertarian with the crush of civil liberties under the last President in the name of &#8220;national security,&#8221; along with the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gadsden_flag\">1775 Gadsden flag<\/a> they stole. <\/p>\n<p>My Gadsden has been in my office window, facing the street, since 2003. Now it has a disclaimer that it was a longstanding belief, been there for seven years, and is not just a political slogan of a part time patriot.<\/p>\n<p>It shows how devalued any word can get through misuse and abuse. Share my views, and you&#8217;re a patriot; don&#8217;t and you&#8217;re a Nazi, Socialist, Communist [pick one or more].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=4387\">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-4387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4387","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=4387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}