{"id":4230,"date":"2011-09-11T20:47:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T02:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/i-remember\/"},"modified":"2011-09-11T20:47:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-12T02:47:00","slug":"i-remember","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/i-remember\/","title":{"rendered":"I remember &hellip;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DUHbya solemnly declaring the \u201c<strong>first<\/strong> war of the new millennium.\u201d My heart fell: the <em>first<\/em>, meaning he knew there would be more war. Endless war. Hope for a new age died with those words.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re either with us or against us.\u201d Swaggering idiot.<\/p>\n<p>The thugs who raged against dissent. How many of those same people openly hate the president today?<\/p>\n<p>The odious un-American \u201cPATRIOT\u201d Act, unread by those who rushed to make it law. &quot;Providing <em>Appropriate<\/em> Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism.&quot; (Renewed under Obama.)<\/p>\n<p>My shock at first hearing \u201cHomeland Security.\u201d It still appalls me.<\/p>\n<p>The militarization of the police. Heavily armored \u201ccops\u201d with tear gas masks and bayonets lunging at peaceful protestors. A local sheriff sneering, \u201cLet me at them.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Machine guns in a backwater airport like Albuquerque\u2019s. I didn\u2019t fly again for eight years \u2013 not for fear of terrorists, but disgust at our response.<\/p>\n<p>Free Speech Zones in cages.<\/p>\n<p>You cannot be free and afraid. You cannot have peace and rage. Wounded, we made many wrong choices. We\u2019ll never fix the worst of our mistakes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUHbya solemnly declaring the \u201cfirst war of the new millennium.\u201d My heart fell: the first, meaning he knew there would be more war. Endless war. Hope for a new age died with those words. \u201cYou\u2019re either with us or against us.\u201d Swaggering idiot. The thugs who raged against dissent. How many of those same people &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/i-remember\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I remember &hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4230","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=4230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}