{"id":1043,"date":"2008-02-08T15:02:16","date_gmt":"2008-02-08T20:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2008\/02\/08\/the-four-boxes-used-to-defend-liberty\/"},"modified":"2008-02-08T21:43:35","modified_gmt":"2008-02-09T02:43:35","slug":"the-four-boxes-used-to-defend-liberty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2008\/02\/08\/the-four-boxes-used-to-defend-liberty\/","title":{"rendered":"The Four Boxes used to Defend Liberty"},"content":{"rendered":"

Still another great sig seen on Slashdot<\/a>:<\/p>\n

There are 4 boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo. Use in that order. Starting now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I hope you’ve been using the first two recently – I know I have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,17],"tags":[385,66,392],"class_list":["post-1043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-society","tag-politics","tag-slashdot","tag-society","entry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-gP","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1009,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2007\/12\/19\/democracy-and-liberty\/","url_meta":{"origin":1043,"position":0},"title":"Democracy and Liberty","author":"Keith Survell","date":"December 19, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"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. 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