{"id":2248,"date":"2005-07-25T13:41:12","date_gmt":"2005-07-25T20:41:12","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-07-25T13:41:12","modified_gmt":"2005-07-25T20:41:12","slug":"choosing-tyranny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/25\/choosing-tyranny\/","title":{"rendered":"Choosing Tyranny"},"content":{"rendered":"

This guy<\/a> is a big pro-war blogger and a vocal advocate of “spreading democracy and freedom” to Iraq.<\/p>\n

Search me<\/p>\n

: I say it’s a good thing that New York police will start random bag searches on the subways.<\/p>\n

Oh, I know it will be inconvenient when I’m late for a meeting and it’s 120-degrees down there and I fear there will be a line. Nonetheless, if and when the cops search me, I’ll thank them.<\/p>\n

This morning on Today, they rolled out the “privacy” boogeyman. “Privacy advocates” were expressing concern. Who the hell are these “privacy advocates?” Name two. But listening to reporters, they seem to be everywhere. You just don’t know it. Because they’re very private.<\/p>\n

And what precisely is the privacy problem? If the cops catch you carrying something illegal, well, you shouldn’t be carrying anything illegal. If they catch you carrying the latest Playboy — or, more embarrassing, Radar — then don’t worry; they’ve seen worse.<\/p>\n

Are random screenings going to catch the next terrorist ready to kill people? We’ll never know. But it is worth the effort. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Elsewhere, bloviating on about how “we” can’t allow the mullahs to come to power in Iraq (this was before the mullahs came to power in Iraq<\/a>), this same guy says,<\/a> “And you cannot convince me that any people will willingly choose tyranny.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This guy is a big pro-war blogger and a vocal advocate of “spreading democracy and freedom” to Iraq. Search me : I say it’s a good thing that New York police will start random bag searches on the subways. Oh, I know it will be inconvenient when I’m late for a meeting and it’s 120-degrees […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2248"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}