{"id":13313,"date":"2012-01-31T00:09:27","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T05:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=13313"},"modified":"2013-03-11T08:57:05","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T13:57:05","slug":"gary-johnson-calls-for-the-immediate-repeal-of-the-patriot-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/01\/31\/gary-johnson-calls-for-the-immediate-repeal-of-the-patriot-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Gary Johnson calls for the immediate repeal of the Patriot Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Posted at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.garyjohnson2012.com\/governor-gary-johnson-repeal-patriot-act-now\" target=\"_blank\">Gary Johnson campaign website<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Speaking Sunday night to a national ACLU conference, former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson called for repealing the Patriot Act in its entirety. The two-term governor and presidential candidate\u2019s remarks were delivered in Orlando, FL, at the ACLU\u2019s annual National Staff Conference.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson said, \u201cTen years ago, we learned that the fastest way to pass a bad law is to call it the \u2018Patriot Act\u2019 and force Congress to vote on it in the immediate wake of a horrible attack on the United States. The irony is that there is really very little about the Patriot Act that is patriotic.  Instead, it has turned out to be yet another tool the government is using to erode privacy, individual freedom and the Constitution itself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBenjamin Franklin had it right. \u2018Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbsolutely, protecting the American people from those who would do us harm is the federal government\u2019s most basic duty. Everyone gets that. But when harm is done, as on 9-11, it is the nature of government to ask for more power and more authority in order to protect us. That\u2019s how we get laws like the Patriot Act.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted at the Gary Johnson campaign website: Speaking Sunday night to a national ACLU conference, former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson called for repealing the Patriot Act in its entirety. The two-term governor and presidential candidate\u2019s remarks were delivered in Orlando, FL, at the ACLU\u2019s annual National Staff Conference. Johnson said, \u201cTen years ago, we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,9,10,13],"tags":[891,715,188,728,550,265,154],"class_list":["post-13313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-law","category-liberty","category-usa","tag-aclu","tag-constitution","tag-electionwatch","tag-garyjohnson","tag-libertarianism","tag-patriotact","tag-privacy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3sJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13313"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19366,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13313\/revisions\/19366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}