{"id":2440,"date":"2008-02-28T11:58:45","date_gmt":"2008-02-28T17:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/lenient-conservatives-that-puts-the-oxy-in-moron\/"},"modified":"2008-02-28T11:58:51","modified_gmt":"2008-02-28T17:58:51","slug":"lenient-conservatives-that-puts-the-oxy-in-moron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/lenient-conservatives-that-puts-the-oxy-in-moron\/","title":{"rendered":"Lenient Conservatives? That puts the oxy in moron."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when conservatives lambasted lenient liberal judges? Remember when conservative rage over judicial judgment&nbsp; lead to mandatory sentencing? Get tough on crime! Do the crime, do the time! Three strikes and you&#8217;re out!<\/p>\n<p>Let us also remember when conservatives preached about personal responsibility. And their endless fear over society devolving into chaos.<\/p>\n<p>We need to remind ourselves of these conservative values because conservatives themselves can&#8217;t recall them. (Studies do indicate that living in constant fear does affect memory.) Case in point: Conservative objections to a murderer being sentenced to two whole years in prison. Gasp, the horror, the injustice!<\/p>\n<p>It seems that it is better than OK &#8212; it&#8217;s laudable &#8212; to chase someone down the street and kill them on the *suspicion* that they broke into your car. Hell, it&#8217;s in the bible, right? That&#8217;s why we have guns, right? Well, as long as you&#8217;re white and a family-values poster child.<\/p>\n<p>peace,<br \/>mjh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when conservatives lambasted lenient liberal judges? Remember when conservative rage over judicial judgment&nbsp; lead to mandatory sentencing? Get tough on crime! Do the crime, do the time! Three strikes and you&#8217;re out! Let us also remember when conservatives preached about personal responsibility. And their endless fear over society devolving into chaos. We need to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/lenient-conservatives-that-puts-the-oxy-in-moron\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lenient Conservatives? That puts the oxy in moron.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-loco","category-nada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}