{"id":3491,"date":"2019-11-17T12:23:11","date_gmt":"2019-11-17T12:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/11\/17\/liberty-forever\/"},"modified":"2019-11-17T12:23:11","modified_gmt":"2019-11-17T12:23:11","slug":"liberty-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/11\/17\/liberty-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberty Forever?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">A re-post from 12 October 2012, shortly before Obama won a second term. Things are worse now. The last seven years have been hard on Lady Liberty despite our great gain in 2016.&#0160; Liberty, if not quite dead, is moribund.&#0160; The insanity spreads, as witness <a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/journalists-against-free-speech\">Journalists Against Free Speech<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\"> <a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0240a4ebe393200b-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Liberty stamp\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c0240a4ebe393200b img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0240a4ebe393200b-320wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Liberty stamp\" \/><\/a>How many Americans care about liberty?&#0160; The depressing fact that Obama may well win the election shows that&#0160;vast numbers of Americans care more about&#0160;<em>panem et circenses<\/em>, bread and circuses, than about liberty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">We&#39;re running on fumes.&#0160; The stamp is border-line Orwellian.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Time was, when liberty was a state.&#0160; Now it&#39;s a stamp.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10000872396390443684104578067041987322754.html\" target=\"_self\">Dorothy Rabinowitz<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/victordavishanson\/do-we-believe-anymore\/?singlepage=true\" target=\"_self\">Victor Davis Hanson<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A re-post from 12 October 2012, shortly before Obama won a second term. Things are worse now. The last seven years have been hard on Lady Liberty despite our great gain in 2016.&#0160; Liberty, if not quite dead, is moribund.&#0160; The insanity spreads, as witness Journalists Against Free Speech. .&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.. How many Americans care about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/11\/17\/liberty-forever\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Liberty Forever?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[231,294,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-speech","category-liberty","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}