{"id":3103,"date":"2009-06-25T19:37:38","date_gmt":"2009-06-25T23:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=3103"},"modified":"2009-06-25T20:32:53","modified_gmt":"2009-06-26T00:32:53","slug":"no-sen-schumer-its-not-the-only-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2009\/06\/25\/no-sen-schumer-its-not-the-only-way\/","title":{"rendered":"No, Sen. Schumer, it&#8217;s not &#8220;the only way.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/iQ11z\">gets on the Big Brother\/REAL ID bandwagon<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;m sure the civil libertarians will object to some kind of biometric card &#8212; although &#8230; there&#8217;ll be all kinds of protections &#8212; but we&#8217;re going to have to do it. It&#8217;s the only way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/lauren.vortex.com\/\">Lauren Weinstein<\/a> puts it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Isn&#8217;t that last sentence what Darth Vader said to Luke when trying to get his son to join him, just after revealing his relationship?<\/p>\n<p>Here we go again.  At least in regards to certain topics, when it comes to Congress, it&#8217;s:<\/p>\n<p>Meet the new boss, same as the old boss!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sometimes &#8211; too often &#8211; it is.  And this Democrat is tired of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) gets on the Big Brother\/REAL ID bandwagon: I&#8217;m sure the civil libertarians will object to some kind of biometric card &#8212; although &#8230; there&#8217;ll be all kinds of protections &#8212; but we&#8217;re going to have to do it. It&#8217;s the only way. As Lauren Weinstein puts it: Isn&#8217;t that last sentence [&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":[372,371,369,370],"class_list":["post-3103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy","category-politics","tag-civil-rights","tag-privacy","tag-real-id","tag-schumer"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3103","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=3103"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3106,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3103\/revisions\/3106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}