{"id":1212,"date":"2003-05-22T15:49:34","date_gmt":"2003-05-23T05:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/05\/22\/alaska-questions-patriot-act\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:37:06","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:37:06","slug":"alaska-questions-patriot-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/05\/22\/alaska-questions-patriot-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Alaska questions Patriot Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:14607,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.news-miner.com\\\/Stories\\\/0,1413,113~7244~1408280,00.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20060113113145\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.news-miner.com:80\\\/Stories\\\/0,1413,113~7244~1408280,00.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 01:07:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-20 12:12:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-20 12:12:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14608,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.geekmuffin.com\\\/archives\\\/001717.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20030710193135\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.geekmuffin.com:80\\\/archives\\\/001717.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 01:07:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:436},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-20 12:12:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:520}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-20 12:12:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:520},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>This is absolutely wonderful to hear &#8212; Alaska has become the second state, after Hawaii, to pass a resolution &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.news-miner.com\/Stories\/0,1413,113~7244~1408280,00.html\" title=\"News-Miner: Senate passes resolution questioning federal Patriot Act\">expressing concern over the federal USA Patriot Act<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  &#8220;When we stand on this floor and we salute that flag, the final words that we use are &#8216;One nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all,&#8221; said Sen.\u00a0Robin Taylor, R-Wrangell. &#8220;I take it deadly serious when we start removing groups of people from &#8216;justice for all.'&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Many congratulations to Alaska, and to every legislator who sponsored and supported this resolution.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekmuffin.com\/archives\/001717.html\" title=\"geek*muffin: Pride\">Kirsten<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Postscript: Think there&#8217;s any significance to the fact that the only two states to take such a step so far are the two that aren&#8217;t part of the &#8220;Lower 48&#8221;, but instead are seperated by many miles of land or sea? Just a thought&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;When we stand on this floor and we salute that flag, the final words that we use are &#8216;One nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all,&#8221; said Sen. Robin Taylor, R-Wrangell. &#8216;I take it deadly serious when we start removing groups of people from &#8216;justice for all.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-1212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}