{"id":93,"date":"2006-05-11T08:28:57","date_gmt":"2006-05-11T13:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ericgharrison.wordpress.com\/2006\/05\/11\/what-the-hell-is-wrong-with-our-american-government"},"modified":"2006-05-11T08:28:57","modified_gmt":"2006-05-11T13:28:57","slug":"what-the-hell-is-wrong-with-our-american-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/?p=93","title":{"rendered":"What the hell is wrong with our (American) government?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"msgcns!E4092A968B7C1A54!199\" class=\"bvMsg\">\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/washington\/2006-05-10-nsa_x.htm\">http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/washington\/2006-05-10-nsa_x.htm<\/a><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>You have got to be kidding me.\u00a0 They are trying to collect records of every phone call made in the United States, just in the hope of maybe data mining it into finding a terrorist?<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>I&#8217;m not sure that\u00a0innocent until proven\u00a0guilty is applicable anymore.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>This is almost as scary as the proposed legislation that would require ISP&#8217;s to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/ISP+snooping+gaining+support\/2100-1028_3-6061187.html?tag=nefd.lede\">track every email you send, and every web site you visit<\/a>, except that it is apparently already happening.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>A lot of these things are done in the guise of helping &quot;the children&quot;.\u00a0 Well what good will it be doing if &quot;the children&quot; end up growing up in a police state?<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Perhaps we&#8217;re all terrorists now&#8230; Your papers please&#8230;<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/washington\/2006-05-10-nsa_x.htm \u00a0 You have got to be kidding me.\u00a0 They are trying to collect records of every phone call made in the United States, just in the hope of maybe data mining it into finding a terrorist? \u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure that\u00a0innocent until proven\u00a0guilty is applicable anymore. \u00a0 This is almost as scary as the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}