{"id":4740,"date":"2010-10-07T19:38:25","date_gmt":"2010-10-07T19:28:40","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-07T19:28:40","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=4740","title":{"rendered":"WND: Wiretapping the Internet: The end of the Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>See this unintentionally hilarious piece on WorldnetDaily, <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/search\/tag\/worldnetdaily\">a bastion of truth<\/a> and unabashed promoter of Sarah Palin for President as a government visionary, tells us yesterday in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conservativerefocus.com\/blog5.php\/2010\/10\/06\/worldnet-daily-obama-s-euthanizing-of-4th-amendment\">Worldnet Daily: Obama&#8217;s euthanizing of 4th Amendment<\/a> that the Justice Department&#8217;s desire to make it possible to wiretap the Internet is the end of the Fourth Amendment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=34018\">WND, December 22, 2005<\/a> praising President Bush for keeping tabs on the enemy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>No, this debate is about partisan politics. The left wants to deprive Americans of yet another tool in the war on terror, this time by curtailing the ability of our commander in chief to secretly keep tabs on those who wish to kill us. President Bush has briefed senators more than 12 times about this program; he has re-authorized it more than 30 times since 9-11. This program is hardly news to anyone in the know.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you love the President, then he can do no wrong in trying to &#8220;keep tabs on the enemy.&#8221; If you hate the President, then his trying to &#8220;keep tabs on the enemy&#8221; is an affront to the Fourth Amendment. Wiretapping the Internet is a scary thought, but it is but a logical extension of the USA PATRIOT Act, brought to you by the Republican Party at a scary time when nobody in government cared about the civil liberties implications. If you were for the USA PATRIOT Act, you are complicit in what is happening now.<\/p>\n<p>There is also another WND article today that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=212249\">evolution is false<\/a>, but I digress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=4740\">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-4740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4740","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=4740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}