{"id":219,"date":"2001-10-30T15:56:21","date_gmt":"2001-10-30T20:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=219"},"modified":"2001-10-30T15:56:21","modified_gmt":"2001-10-30T20:56:21","slug":"i-do-not-support-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=219","title":{"rendered":"I do not support the"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I do not support the so-called <a href=\"opWin('http:\/\/www.epic.org\/privacy\/terrorism\/hr3162.html', 'PopupWin', 'toolbar=no,menubar=yes,status=no,left=20,top=10,width=860,height=640,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes');\">Patriot Act<\/a>.&nbsp;  Since it is now enacted, I do support strict adherance to its &#8216;sunset&#8217; provision limiting the life of this draconian act.&nbsp;  <\/p>\n<p>\nI am embarrased to be a human today, on a planet where the dominant free society enacts a law that virtually criminalizes immigrant status.&nbsp;  This exceeds the shame caused by Bush-the-former when he blocked HIV positive people from entering the US.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhat is going on?&nbsp; Callers to <a href=\"opWin('http:\/\/www.npr.org\/programs\/totn\/', 'PopupWin', 'toolbar=no,menubar=yes,status=no,left=20,top=10,width=860,height=640,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes');\"><i>Talk of the Nation<\/i><\/a> on NPR are actually advocating torture for suspected terrorists.&nbsp;  What&#8217;s even scarier is that such torture is the scheduled topic for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/ramfiles\/totn\/20011030.totn.ram\">today&#8217;s show<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I do not support the so-called Patriot Act.&nbsp; Since it is now enacted, I do support strict adherance to its &#8216;sunset&#8217; provision limiting the life of this draconian act.&nbsp; I am embarrased to be a human today, on a planet &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/?p=219\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[953,192],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-talk-of-the-nation","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burgwinkel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}