{"id":249,"date":"2004-04-21T11:24:18","date_gmt":"2004-04-21T15:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/2004\/04\/21\/resistance-to-the-usa-patriot-act\/"},"modified":"2012-05-07T15:33:37","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T19:33:37","slug":"resistance-to-the-usa-patriot-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/2004\/04\/21\/resistance-to-the-usa-patriot-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Resistance to the USA PATRIOT Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a165'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An article by Elaine Scarry documents how local governments have passed<br \/>\nresolutions protesting provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act, defending<br \/>\npeople&#8217;s rights &#8220;where they live;&#8221;&nbsp; how the legislation encourages<br \/>\nsecrecy and challenges the notion of an open, democratic government;<br \/>\nand even how the use of &#8220;USA&#8221; and &#8220;PATRIOT&#8221; in this context confounds<br \/>\nthe meanings of these words.&nbsp; Excerpted in the May 2004 Harper&#8217;s<br \/>\nmagazine, it was originally published in the Feb\/Mar issue of Boston<br \/>\nReview. &nbsp;<font size=\"2\" color=\"#808080\" face=\"Georgia\"><i><\/i><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article by Elaine Scarry documents how local governments have passed resolutions protesting provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act, defending people&#8217;s rights &#8220;where they live;&#8221;&nbsp; how the legislation encourages secrecy and challenges the notion of an open, democratic government; and even how the use of &#8220;USA&#8221; and &#8220;PATRIOT&#8221; in this context confounds the meanings of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1077,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1381],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-sources"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1077"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":734,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}