{"id":145,"date":"2006-11-18T21:01:30","date_gmt":"2006-11-19T02:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2006\/11\/18\/ag-gonzales-mistakes-himself-for-the-american-people\/"},"modified":"2006-11-18T21:01:30","modified_gmt":"2006-11-19T02:01:30","slug":"ag-gonzales-mistakes-himself-for-the-american-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2006\/11\/18\/ag-gonzales-mistakes-himself-for-the-american-people\/","title":{"rendered":"AG Gonzales Mistakes Himself for the American People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today, Attorney General Alberto &#8220;Abu&#8221; Gonzales gave a <a href=\"http:\/\/releases.usnewswire.com\/GetRelease.asp?id=76582\">speech<\/a> at the Air Force Academy.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Some people will argue nothing could justify the government being able to intercept conversations like the ones the [Terrorist Surveillance Program] targets. Instead of seeing the government protecting the country, they see it as on the verge of stifling freedom.<\/p>\n<p>But this view is shortsighted. Its definition of freedom &#8211; one utterly divorced from civic responsibility &#8211; is superficial and <em><strong>is itself a grave threat to the liberty and security of the American people<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No, Alberto.\u00c2\u00a0 That view of freedom &#8211; one shared by our founding fathers, hundreds of years of jurisprudence, and me &#8211; is a grave threat to <em><strong>you<\/strong><\/em> <em><strong>and the fascists you serve.<\/strong><\/em>\u00c2\u00a0 Here, in case you missed it, is the Fourth Amendment:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and <strong>no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause<\/strong>, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Keep reading it until you understand, or get the hell out of my government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today, Attorney General Alberto &#8220;Abu&#8221; Gonzales gave a speech at the Air Force Academy. Some people will argue nothing could justify the government being able to intercept conversations like the ones the [Terrorist Surveillance Program] targets. Instead of seeing the government protecting the country, they see it as on the verge of stifling freedom. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}