{"id":395,"date":"2004-01-02T15:54:49","date_gmt":"2004-01-02T19:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/2004\/01\/02\/adios-a-las-alarmas\/"},"modified":"2004-01-02T15:54:49","modified_gmt":"2004-01-02T19:54:49","slug":"adios-a-las-alarmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/2004\/01\/02\/adios-a-las-alarmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Adios a las alarmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a544'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a rage, Friedman went online. &#x201C;I started doing research about car alarms and discovered that they were totally useless in preventing car theft,&#x201D; he said recently. &#x201C;That&#x2019;s when this really became, you know, a vendetta.&#x201D; In short order, Friedman, who as the son of a Berkeley judge decided long ago to live an apolitical life, became an expert and an activist and, within a year, the citizen spirit behind what could soon be a total ban on car alarms in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>First came the obvious: phone calls to the Mayor&#x2019;s office and the local councilman; a community-board speech. Then Friedman set out to create an alarm-eradication group. He searched the Times archives for people who had written letters to the editor featuring the term &#x201C;car alarm,&#x201D; and called them on the phone: thirty citizens to the barricades. He also set up a Web site, www.silentmajorityny.org, which features legends (a mockingbird in Brooklyn that sings alarm songs), confessions (&#x201C;A friend of mine once peed on a car with an alarm going off and I cheered him on&#x201D;), and instances of wonderment (&#x201C;I feel like I have road rage and I don&#x2019;t even have a car&#x201D;).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/i><\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/talk\/content\/?040105ta_talk_loew\">Articulito<\/a> en el New Yorker sobre lo que puede conseguir la gente cuando se organiza. Todo muy bonito, pol<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a rage, Friedman went online. &#x201C;I started doing research about car alarms and discovered that they were totally useless in preventing car theft,&#x201D; he said recently. &#x201C;That&#x2019;s when this really became, you know, a vendetta.&#x201D; In short order, Friedman, who as the son of a Berkeley judge decided long ago to live an apolitical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":240,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1458],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ionstories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/240"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ionblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}