{"id":3313,"date":"2011-12-15T09:47:17","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T16:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talesfromthe.net\/jon\/?p=3313"},"modified":"2011-12-15T09:47:17","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T16:47:17","slug":"happy-f-ing-bill-of-rights-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2011\/12\/15\/happy-f-ing-bill-of-rights-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy f&#8212;ing Bill of Rights Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Bill_of_Rights\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/7\/79\/Bill_of_Rights_Pg1of1_AC.jpg\/564px-Bill_of_Rights_Pg1of1_AC.jpg\" alt=\"the Bill of Rights\" width=\"283\" height=\"300\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>Both houses of Congress have passed the #NDAA codifying indefinite detention &#8212; and Obama&#8217;s happy with the language, so won&#8217;t be vetoing it. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile even as I write this, the House is debating #SOPA.<\/p>\n<p>Remember back in 2006-8 when the Bush Administration rammed through PATRIOT Act reauthorization and FISA?  Obama was on the right side for a while &#8212; at least until July 2008, when he broke his promise to filibuster.  Now, he&#8217;s continuing and building on Bush policies.  Senator Chris Dodd was heroic on FISA; now, he&#8217;s working for the MPAA and using China&#8217;s internet policies as a blueprint for the US.  And how about Patrick Leahy, bulwark of civil liberties &#8212; and co-sponsor of the Senate equivalent of SOPA?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not that I think the Republicans are any better on the whole.  Both parties have a few standouts on civil liberties &#8212; Wyden, Nadler, the Pauls.  But on the whole, the political establishment continues to show itself remarkably unconcerned with Americans&#8217; rights.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s hoping that in 2012 we&#8217;ll start to do something about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both houses of Congress have passed the #NDAA codifying indefinite detention &#8212; and Obama&#8217;s happy with the language, so won&#8217;t be vetoing it. Meanwhile even as I write this, the House is debating #SOPA. Remember back in 2006-8 when the Bush Administration rammed through PATRIOT Act reauthorization and FISA? Obama was on the right side [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,16],"tags":[45,75,234,331],"class_list":["post-3313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","category-privacy","category-tales-from-the-net","tag-bill-of-rights","tag-civil-liberties","tag-ndaa","tag-sopa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}