{"id":1104,"date":"2006-01-25T22:07:27","date_gmt":"2006-01-25T22:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1104"},"modified":"2006-01-25T22:07:27","modified_gmt":"2006-01-25T22:07:27","slug":"security_blanke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1104","title":{"rendered":"Security Blanket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><DIV>I love this picture:<\/DIV><DIV>&nbsp;<\/DIV><DIV><IMG data-recalc-dims=\"1\" alt=\"The image &#147;http:\/\/i.a.cnn.net\/cnn\/2006\/POLITICS\/01\/24\/nsa.strategy\/t1.1543.gonzales.ap.jpg&#148; cannot be displayed, because it contains errors.\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.a.cnn.net\/cnn\/2006\/POLITICS\/01\/24\/nsa.strategy\/t1.1543.gonzales.ap.jpg?w=600\"><\/DIV><DIV>&nbsp;<\/DIV><DIV>These law students at Georgetown turned their backs on Attorney General Alberto Gonzales as he delivered a speech defending the illegal wiretapping of U.S. citizens.&nbsp; The quote, in case you can&#8217;t read the attribution, is from Benjamin Franklin.&nbsp; Read the full story <A href=\"http:\/\/insomnia.livejournal.com\/652389.html?nc=2&#038;style=mine\">here<\/A>.&nbsp; <\/DIV><DIV>&nbsp;<\/DIV><DIV>I know lots of people want the government to do whatever it takes to keep us safe.&nbsp; But the practice of conducting unconstitutional surveillance of Americans is <A href=\"http:\/\/www.wnymedia.net\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=848\">neither efficient nor effective<\/A>.&nbsp; It might make us feel safer, but the idea that such actions are actually protecting us is laughable.&nbsp; <\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love this picture:&nbsp;&nbsp;These law students at Georgetown turned their backs on Attorney General Alberto Gonzales as he delivered a speech defending the illegal wiretapping of U.S. citizens.&nbsp; The quote, in case you can&#8217;t read the attribution, is from Benjamin Franklin.&nbsp; Read the full story here.&nbsp; &nbsp;I know lots of people want the government to <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1104' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-hO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}