{"id":1009,"date":"2007-12-19T08:28:13","date_gmt":"2007-12-19T13:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2007\/12\/14\/democracy-and-liberty\/"},"modified":"2007-12-19T08:28:48","modified_gmt":"2007-12-19T13:28:48","slug":"democracy-and-liberty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2007\/12\/19\/democracy-and-liberty\/","title":{"rendered":"Democracy and Liberty"},"content":{"rendered":"

This little analogy, found in a signature on Slashdot<\/a>, sums it up quite nicely:<\/p>\n

Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what’s for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This little analogy, found in a signature on Slashdot, sums it up quite nicely: Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what’s for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.<\/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,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[385,66,392],"class_list":["post-1009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-stuff","category-politics","tag-politics","tag-slashdot","tag-society","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-gh","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1043,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2008\/02\/08\/the-four-boxes-used-to-defend-liberty\/","url_meta":{"origin":1009,"position":0},"title":"The Four Boxes used to Defend Liberty","author":"Keith Survell","date":"February 8, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Still another great sig seen on Slashdot: There are 4 boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo. Use in that order. Starting now. I hope you've been using the first two recently - I know I have.","rel":"","context":"In "politics"","block_context":{"text":"politics","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":496,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/05\/11\/real-id-passes-us-senate-100-0\/","url_meta":{"origin":1009,"position":1},"title":"Real ID Passes U.S. Senate 100-0","author":"Keith Survell","date":"May 11, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Some juicy quotes from Slashdot members: \"The US was founded on state rights, hence \"The United States of America\". If you don't like a state's rules, move to another state. The federal government is heading toward \"monoculturing\" the US. Pretty soon we'll be 'Former United States of America.'\"","rel":"","context":"In "politics"","block_context":{"text":"politics","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1200,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2008\/07\/10\/democrat-republican\/","url_meta":{"origin":1009,"position":2},"title":"Democrat = Republican","author":"Keith Survell","date":"July 10, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Seen in a Slashdot thread on Nancy Pelosi vs. the Internet: The Democratic and Republican parties are two sides of the same coin. Neither is there to help you. Both have a long history of trying to steal elections. Democrats claim to be liberal, and Republicans claim to be conservative,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "politics"","block_context":{"text":"politics","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1312,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2008\/08\/27\/the-difference-between-the-government-and-the-mafia\/","url_meta":{"origin":1009,"position":3},"title":"The Difference Between the Government and the Mafia","author":"Keith Survell","date":"August 27, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I saw this in a discussion over on Slashdot about New York sales\/use tax - someone mentioned that \"New York has always been a bit bizzare about taxes.\" Someone else replied with: They're not bizarre; they're just greedy for every dollar they can get their grubby little paws on. Just\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "fun stuff"","block_context":{"text":"fun stuff","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/fun-stuff\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":618,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/09\/08\/fema-demands-use-of-ie-to-file-online-katrina-claims\/","url_meta":{"origin":1009,"position":4},"title":"FEMA Demands Use of IE To File Online Katrina Claims","author":"Keith Survell","date":"September 8, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"As reported by MSNBC, if you survived the hurricane and are a Mac, Linux or Firefox user you cannot file a claim online.","rel":"","context":"In "politics"","block_context":{"text":"politics","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":416,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/02\/15\/entymology-of-patriot\/","url_meta":{"origin":1009,"position":5},"title":"Entymology of PATRIOT","author":"Keith Survell","date":"February 15, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"This was so amusing, I'm sharing it with you. It was found on the comments section of a Slashdot article.","rel":"","context":"In "politics"","block_context":{"text":"politics","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}