{"id":93,"date":"2005-02-09T17:01:19","date_gmt":"2005-02-09T17:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/wordp\/?p=93"},"modified":"2005-02-09T17:01:19","modified_gmt":"2005-02-09T17:01:19","slug":"what-ben-franklin-would-have-thought-of-the-patriot-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/?p=93","title":{"rendered":"What Ben Franklin would have thought of the Patriot Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I doubt if the one of United States&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foundingfathers.info\">founding fathers<\/a> and greatest thinkers would be too impressed with the subtle and blatant curtailing of civil liberties by the enactment of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epic.org\/privacy\/terrorism\/hr3162.html\">US Patriot Act.<\/a>  I stumbled across the following quote of Ben Franklin&#8217;s earlier today while I was looking for something else. Wise words that the current administration could do with heeding.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. &#8220;<\/em><br \/>\n&#8211;Benjamin Franklin\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More information on Benjamin Franklin can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fi.edu\/franklin\/rotten.html\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I doubt if the one of United States&#8217; founding fathers and greatest thinkers would be too impressed with the subtle and blatant curtailing of civil liberties by the enactment of the US Patriot Act. I stumbled across the following quote of Ben Franklin&#8217;s earlier today while I was looking for something else. Wise words that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}