{"id":204,"date":"2003-04-04T21:45:47","date_gmt":"2003-04-05T01:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2003\/04\/04\/civil-liberties-down-the-tube\/"},"modified":"2003-04-04T21:45:47","modified_gmt":"2003-04-05T01:45:47","slug":"civil-liberties-down-the-tube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2003\/04\/04\/civil-liberties-down-the-tube\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil Liberties Down the Tube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a15'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Been &#8220;disappeared&#8221; lately?  &#8216;Sure you know where you live?  The US?  &#8216;Sure about that?  Not Chile?  Not Argentina?  Several decades ago?   <\/p>\n<p>Constitution, civil liberties?  Ring a bell?  Lost the remote?<br \/>\nRead this instead:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.warblogging.com\/archives\/000603.php<\/p>\n<p>and write a letter to your newspaper, to your congressman, to your senator.  Support the ACLU.   Scream &#8220;fire!&#8221; at the top of your lungs.<\/p>\n<p>Martin Niemoeller&#8217;s famous parable holds true today, too:<\/p>\n<p>First they came for the Jews<br \/>\nand I did not speak out&#8211;<br \/>\nbecause I was not a Jew<br \/>\nThen they came for the communists<br \/>\nand I did not speak out&#8211;<br \/>\nbecause I was not a communist<br \/>\nThen they came for the trade unionists&#8211;<br \/>\nand I did not speak out&#8211;<br \/>\nbecause I was not a trade unionist<br \/>\nThen they came for me<br \/>\nand there was no one left to speak for me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Been &#8220;disappeared&#8221; lately? &#8216;Sure you know where you live? The US? &#8216;Sure about that? Not Chile? Not Argentina? Several decades ago? Constitution, civil liberties? Ring a bell? Lost the remote? Read this instead: http:\/\/www.warblogging.com\/archives\/000603.php and write a letter to your newspaper, to your congressman, to your senator. Support the ACLU. Scream &#8220;fire!&#8221; at the top [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[600],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yulelogstories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}