{"id":209,"date":"2005-09-16T04:54:48","date_gmt":"2005-09-16T08:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2005\/09\/16\/the-responsibility-of-government-f"},"modified":"2005-09-16T04:54:48","modified_gmt":"2005-09-16T08:54:48","slug":"the-responsibility-of-government-for-the-public-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2005\/09\/16\/the-responsibility-of-government-for-the-public-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"The responsibility of government for the public safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1066'><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">&#8220;The responsibility of government for<br \/>\nthe public safety is absolute, and requires no mandate.&nbsp; It is in<br \/>\nfact the prime object for which governments come into existence.&#8221; &#8212; <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Churchill<\/span>.\n<\/div>\n<p>\nTimeless footage from last week: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Keith_Olbermann\">Keith Olbermann<\/a> steps back from his normal perspective and delicately <a href=\"http:\/\/media.putfile.com\/OlbermannSwings\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">eviscerates<\/span> federal leaders<\/a> over their responses to Katrina.<\/p>\n<p>And, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">crass <\/span>but still almost as cathartic, here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.illwillpress.com\/kat.html\">ill will press<\/a> on the subject.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The responsibility of government for the public safety is absolute, and requires no mandate.&nbsp; It is in fact the prime object for which governments come into existence.&#8221; &#8212; Churchill. Timeless footage from last week: Keith Olbermann steps back from his normal perspective and delicately eviscerates federal leaders over their responses to Katrina. And, crass but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-popular-demand"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}