{"id":545,"date":"2005-06-14T14:23:48","date_gmt":"2005-06-14T18:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=545"},"modified":"2009-04-12T20:32:03","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T00:32:03","slug":"the-new-mccarthyism-against-gun-owners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/06\/14\/the-new-mccarthyism-against-gun-owners\/","title":{"rendered":"The New McCarthyism against Gun Owners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More nonsense regarding gun control &#038; the violation of constitutional rights from <a href=\"http:\/\/volokh.com\/posts\/1118765047.shtml\">The Volokh Conspiracy<\/a>. (Beware &#8211; the article linked to by Volokh is a PDF.)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The civil libertarians who warned about a New McCarthyism in the United States turned out to be right. As in the early 1950s, politicians &#8211; abetted by an uncritical press &#8211; are using national security as a pretext to take away constitutional rights. Like the Old McCarthyism, the New McCarthyism wants constitutional rights eliminated without due process, based on mere suspicion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>*sigh*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More nonsense regarding gun control &#038; the violation of constitutional rights from The Volokh Conspiracy.<\/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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-8N","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":667,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/10\/26\/the-second-amendment-and-the-living-constitution\/","url_meta":{"origin":545,"position":0},"title":"The Second Amendment and the Living Constitution","author":"Keith Survell","date":"October 26, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Eugene Volokh has an excellent essay on the Second Amendment - and I think it's obvious that I wholeheartedly agree with him.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;politics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"politics","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":553,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/06\/23\/kelo-v-city-of-new-london\/","url_meta":{"origin":545,"position":1},"title":"Kelo v. City of New London","author":"Keith Survell","date":"June 23, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, this is what I get for not paying attention to things. What the hell happened here? Is this a failure of justice or something?","rel":"","context":"In &quot;politics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"politics","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":557,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/06\/27\/its-starting\/","url_meta":{"origin":545,"position":2},"title":"It&#8217;s starting&#8230;","author":"Keith Survell","date":"June 27, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"In the aftermath of the Kelo decision, more aggressive \"public takings\" are already starting.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;politics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"politics","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":534,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/06\/08\/school-controls-speech\/","url_meta":{"origin":545,"position":3},"title":"School Controls Speech","author":"Keith Survell","date":"June 8, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"\"It's true that under the Court's Establishment Clause caselaw the government generally may not itself engage in religious speech, nor may it give preferential treatment to religious speech. But this ban on government preferences for religious speech doesn't require or authorize discrimination against private religious speech. Such discrimination is itself\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;politics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"politics","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":481,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/05\/26\/the-innocent-and-the-guilty\/","url_meta":{"origin":545,"position":4},"title":"The Innocent and the Guilty","author":"Keith Survell","date":"May 26, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"This article makes a good point - about the President's hypocrisy on death. It should be noted, of course, that I'm all for stem cell research - and the death penalty, too. At least my views are internally consistent!","rel":"","context":"In &quot;politics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"politics","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":509,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/05\/31\/international-law-and-the-first-amendment\/","url_meta":{"origin":545,"position":5},"title":"International Law and the First Amendment","author":"Keith Survell","date":"May 31, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"I saw the word \"hegemony\" and instantly I was thinking of \"Ender's Game.\"","rel":"","context":"In &quot;politics&quot;","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\/545","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=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}