{"id":1273,"date":"2003-06-09T05:26:16","date_gmt":"2003-06-09T19:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/06\/09\/thatll-stop-them\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:36:03","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:36:03","slug":"thatll-stop-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/06\/09\/thatll-stop-them\/","title":{"rendered":"That&#039;ll stop them!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:14450,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.thismodernworld.com\\\/weblog\\\/mtarchives\\\/week_2003_06_01.html#000722&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/thismodernworld.com\\\/weblog\\\/mtarchives\\\/week_2003_06_01.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14451,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.msnbc.com\\\/news\\\/922454.asp?0sl=-22&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.ms.now\\\/news\\\/922454.asp?0sl=-22&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>(Shamelessly snagging this post from Bob Harris at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thismodernworld.com\/weblog\/mtarchives\/week_2003_06_01.html#000722\" title=\"John Ashcroft, Genius-At-Large\">This Modern World<\/a>, as nothing more needs to be said.)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Our Attorney General wants to make terrorist attacks against military bases or nuclear plants a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/news\/922454.asp?0sl=-22\" title=\"Ashcroft wants Patriot Act widened\">capital offense<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>  Obviously. Nothing deters a suicide bomber quite like the death penalty.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The full article is even scarier, though. Ashcroft is calling for a widening of the Patriot Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Attorney General wants to make terrorist attacks against military bases or nuclear plants a capital offense.<\/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-1273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273","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=1273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}