{"id":639,"date":"2002-12-26T15:39:35","date_gmt":"2002-12-26T23:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=639"},"modified":"2016-07-25T20:18:39","modified_gmt":"2016-07-26T04:18:39","slug":"bleak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=639","title":{"rendered":"bleak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepowerhour.com\/news\/welcome_newamerikka.htm\"> Yet another tale of petty banal evil. <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThere are plenty of stories like this these days.  I don&#8217;t know how many I&#8217;ve read where the writer describes some breach of civil liberties by employees of the state, then wraps it all up with a dire warning about what we as a nation are becoming, and how if we don&#8217;t put an end to it now, then we&#8217;re in for heaps of trouble.  Well you know what?  Nothing&#8217;s going to stop the inevitable.  There&#8217;s no policy change that&#8217;s going to save us.  There&#8217;s no election that&#8217;s going to put a halt to the onslaught of tyranny.  It&#8217;s here already &#8212; this country has changed for the worse and will continue to change for the worse.  There is now a division between the citizenry and the state.  When that state is used as a tool against me, there is no longer any reason why I should owe any allegiance to that state.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s the first thing that child of ours is going to learn.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This, incidentally, is one of the many reasons I&#8217;m not about to have children; though I recognize enough hypocrisy in myself that I might change my mind if I should ever have the opportunity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another tale of petty banal evil. There are plenty of stories like this these days. I don&#8217;t know how many I&#8217;ve read where the writer describes some breach of civil liberties by employees of the state, then wraps it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=639\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3648,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions\/3648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}