{"id":678094,"date":"2010-02-28T17:24:44","date_gmt":"2010-02-28T22:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.campaignforliberty.com\/blog.php?view=33052"},"modified":"2010-02-28T17:24:44","modified_gmt":"2010-02-28T22:24:44","slug":"uncle-sam-threatens-liberties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/678094","title":{"rendered":"Uncle Sam Threatens Liberties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Doug Bandow<\/p>\n<p>The American people know who poses the greatest threat to their liberties.&nbsp; The federal government.&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2010\/02\/26\/cnn-poll-majority-says-government-a-threat-to-citizens-rights\/?fbid=GqoxxGrCd1R\">CNN reports on the results of a new poll<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A majority of Americans think the federal government poses a threat to rights of Americans, according to a new national poll.<\/p>\n<p>Fifty-six percent of people questioned in a CNN\/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Friday say they think the federal government&#8217;s become so large and powerful that it poses an immediate threat to the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens. Forty-four percent of those polled disagree.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>People are right to fear Uncle Sam&#8217;s reach.&nbsp; Yet nothing seems to change.&nbsp; President Barack Obama just signed an extension of President George Bush&#8217;s PATRIOT Act.&nbsp; Federal spending rises, irrespective of who is in charge.&nbsp; Old wars continue and new wars get started by Republican and Democratic presidents alike.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s time for a transpartisan coalition to&nbsp;protect our liberties.&nbsp; Now.&nbsp;&nbsp;Unfortunately, the threats will only&nbsp;continue to grow:&nbsp; it&nbsp;is imperative&nbsp;that we&nbsp;act to defend our republic and the Constitution upon which it is based.<\/p>\n<p>Doug Bandow, American Conservative Defense Alliance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Doug Bandow The American people know who poses the greatest threat to their liberties.&nbsp; The federal government.&nbsp; CNN reports on the results of a new poll: A majority of Americans think the federal government poses a threat to rights of Americans, according to a new national poll. Fifty-six percent of people questioned in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-678094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Qp0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}