{"id":396,"date":"2007-06-30T14:48:10","date_gmt":"2007-06-30T18:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/06\/30\/were-trading-our-constitution-in-for-protection-from-these-idiots\/"},"modified":"2007-07-02T08:50:26","modified_gmt":"2007-07-02T12:50:26","slug":"were-trading-our-constitution-in-for-protection-from-these-idiots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/06\/30\/were-trading-our-constitution-in-for-protection-from-these-idiots\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re trading our Constitution in for protection from *these* idiots?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m told that there&#8217;s been breathless coverage of the failed bombing attempts in London over the past 24 hours, and I can see that it&#8217;s going to exponentially ratchet up with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/06\/30\/AR2007063000219.html?hpid=topnews\">mostly-failed attempt<\/a> in Glasgow today.  A few cars, cans of gasoline, and a whole lot of stupidity.  Now, I&#8217;m not complaining about that bit &#8211; in fact, I quite prefer my terrorists to be rather stupid.  Makes us all safer, really.  But to hear the US government, security industry, and news networks over the past six years, you&#8217;d think we were facing Dr. Evil with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0118655\/quotes\">frickin&#8217; sharks with frickin&#8217; lasers on their heads<\/a> everywhere we turned.<\/p>\n<p>But we&#8217;re not.<\/p>\n<p>And they&#8217;re idiots.<\/p>\n<p>So why can&#8217;t we treat them like idiots?<\/p>\n<p>(Update: Apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/atrios.blogspot.com\/2007_06_24_archive.html#5005422739562681433\">Atrios &amp; Larry Johnson<\/a> were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tpmcafe.com\/blog\/coffeehouse\/2007\/jul\/01\/soiled_diaper_wearers_unite\">thinking this<\/a>, too.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m told that there&#8217;s been breathless coverage of the failed bombing attempts in London over the past 24 hours, and I can see that it&#8217;s going to exponentially ratchet up with the mostly-failed attempt in Glasgow today. A few cars, cans of gasoline, and a whole lot of stupidity. Now, I&#8217;m not complaining about that [&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":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396","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=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}