{"id":421,"date":"2005-12-16T19:41:11","date_gmt":"2005-12-17T02:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/?p=421"},"modified":"2005-12-16T19:44:05","modified_gmt":"2005-12-17T02:44:05","slug":"maybe-we-dont-need-to-act-quite-so-patriotic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/16\/maybe-we-dont-need-to-act-quite-so-patriotic\/","title":{"rendered":"Maybe we don&#8217;t need to Act quite so Patriotic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/POLITICS\/12\/16\/senate.patriot.ap\/index.html\">CNN.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; The Senate on Friday refused to reauthorize major portions of the USA Patriot Act after critics complained they infringed too much on Americans&#8217; privacy and liberty, dealing a huge defeat to the Bush administration and Republican leaders.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This debate has been going back-and-forth for some time now, with fervent opinion from both sides. For example:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;The time for Democrats to stop standing in the way has come.&#8221; &#8211;White House press secretary Scott McClellan.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Funy, here&#8217;s what one of the Republican nay-sayers had to say:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;Those that would give up essential liberties in pursuit in a little temporary security deserve neither liberty nor security,&#8221; &#8211;Sen. John Sununu, R-New Hampshire\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You tell &#8217;em, Johnny!<\/p>\n<p>You can fin a list of the dying provisions <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/POLITICS\/12\/16\/patriot.provisions.ap\/index.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patriot Act renewal gets a thumbs-down <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/16\/maybe-we-dont-need-to-act-quite-so-patriotic\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}