{"id":1064,"date":"2011-06-04T18:52:16","date_gmt":"2011-06-04T22:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/?p=1064"},"modified":"2011-11-13T20:33:42","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T00:33:42","slug":"it-is-crucial-to-protect-and-preserve-the-right-to-argue-that-a-government-has-become-so-tyrannical-or-dangerous-that-violence-is-justified-against-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/?p=1064","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;It is crucial to protect and preserve the right to argue that a government has become so tyrannical or dangerous that violence is justified against it.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;That, after all, was the argument on which the American Founding was based; it is pure political speech; and criminalizing the expression of that idea poses a grave danger to free speech generally and the specific ability to organize against abusive governments.\u00a0 To allow the government to punish citizens &#8212; let alone to kill them &#8212; because their political advocacy is threatening to the government is infinitely more dangerous than whatever ideas are being targeted for punishment, even if that idea is violent jihad.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/opinion\/glenn_greenwald\/2011\/06\/01\/free_speech?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+salon%2Fgreenwald+%28Glenn+Greenwald%29\">Glenn Greenwald is of course absolutely right.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And his absolutely valid point kind of makes my little effort on this blog to undermine and diminish the government&#8217;s power over the American people, by reminding whoever stops by that faith in the government is irrational and un-American, appear positively tame in comparison, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;That, after all, was the argument on which the American Founding was based; it is pure political speech; and criminalizing the expression of that idea poses a grave danger to free speech generally and the specific ability to organize against abusive governments.\u00a0 To allow the government to punish citizens &#8212; let alone to kill them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-glenn-greenwald"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1064"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1570,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions\/1570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}