{"id":200,"date":"2004-09-12T09:02:44","date_gmt":"2004-09-12T09:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=200"},"modified":"2006-02-13T00:56:02","modified_gmt":"2006-02-13T07:56:02","slug":"using-rights-to-complain-about-no-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=200","title":{"rendered":"Using rights to complain about no rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was perusing some blogs today and came up on <a href=\"http:\/\/loserslounge.blogspot.com\">Losers Lounge<\/a>. In her side bar, the writer laments the loss of her Constitutional rights:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>IN MEMORY OF: The Bill Of Rights (1791-2001) Slain By The Patriot Act. Rest In Pieces<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course she voices her complaint by blogging and therefore using her rights of free speech and freedom of the press. She also uses a tyrant&#8217;s title as her pen name, &#8220;Tsarina&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I guess she doesn&#8217;t see the irony of her writing.<\/p>\n<p>Tsarina doesn&#8217;t understand the true threat. Bin Laden wrote an <a href=\"http:\/\/observer.guardian.co.uk\/worldview\/story\/0,11581,845725,00.html\">open letter<\/a> containing his seven demands of the American People. Note the first:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>(1) The first thing that we are calling you to is Islam.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And the consequences:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;If you fail to respond to all these conditions, then prepare for fight with the Islamic Nation.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The threat of freedom comes from Islamic fascists. Not from our government where the Bill of Rights is still the standard of liberty in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was perusing some blogs today and came up on Losers Lounge. In her side bar, the writer laments the loss of her Constitutional rights: IN MEMORY OF: The Bill Of Rights (1791-2001) Slain By The Patriot Act. Rest In Pieces Of course she voices her complaint by blogging and therefore using her rights of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=200\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Using rights to complain about no rights&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-strange-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}