{"id":8,"date":"2008-08-31T15:18:21","date_gmt":"2008-08-31T15:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=8"},"modified":"2008-08-31T15:18:21","modified_gmt":"2008-08-31T15:18:21","slug":"abuse-of-authority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rant.godshell.com\/?p=8","title":{"rendered":"Abuse of Authority?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/POLITICS\/08\/30\/rnc.protest\/index.html\" title=\"Police raid headquarters of RNC protesters\">Interesting<\/a>&#8230; Very interesting&#8230;. Execution of a search warrant, the cause of which is not public. It strikes me as odd because I thought you needed to provide the person(s) being searched with the warrant, and I would expect a group <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nornc.org\/\" title=\"RNC Welcoming Committee\">such as this<\/a> to make that information public, post haste..<\/p>\n<p>Upon further searching, it looks like at least <a href=\"http:\/\/tc.indymedia.org\/2008\/aug\/tc-imc-exclusive-complete-search-warrant-minneapolis-raid-today\" title=\"TC-IMC Exclusive: Complete search warrant from Minneapolis raid today\">one of the search warrants<\/a> is public now. Apparently the police were searching for items ranging from so-called bomb-making materials to spray paint. So, it would appear that they are looking for terrorists&#8230; Interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Now I don&#8217;t know nearly enough about this group to either support or condone their actions, but I do remember four and eight years ago when the Republicans were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogd.com\/archives\/000743.html\" title=\"Criticize Bush, Go to Jail: The Obscenity of \">doing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.couldyoubenext.com\/SnS_newsforward_Bovard.htm\" title=\"Quarantining Dissent - How the Secret Service Protects Bush from Free Speech!\">everything<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/World\/unitedstates\/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1863097\" title=\"In defence of elderly hippies\">they<\/a> could to prevent dissidents from appearing at their conventions, meetings, etc. It was wrong then, and it&#8217;s wrong now. It seems that under Republican rule, free speech isn&#8217;t exactly free, is it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting&#8230; Very interesting&#8230;. Execution of a search warrant, the cause of which is not public. It strikes me as odd because I thought you needed to provide the person(s) being searched with the warrant, and I would expect a group such as this to make that information public, post haste.. Upon further searching, it looks &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rant.godshell.com\/?p=8\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Abuse of Authority?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rant.godshell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rant.godshell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rant.godshell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rant.godshell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rant.godshell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rant.godshell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rant.godshell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rant.godshell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rant.godshell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}