{"id":1279,"date":"2005-12-28T23:04:30","date_gmt":"2005-12-29T05:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=1279"},"modified":"2005-12-28T23:07:27","modified_gmt":"2005-12-29T05:07:27","slug":"surveillance-mainstream-media-amaze-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=1279","title":{"rendered":"Surveillance:  Mainstream Media Amaze Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; if only for their inanity.  <\/p>\n<p>I realize we&#8217;re currently riding out the latest media- and Democrat-driven tempest &#8212; location likely to be in a teacup, but let&#8217;s let the story play out as it may &#8212; about electronic surveillance without judicial warrants of international communications with suspected terrorists.  But honestly, how much are you scraping the story barrel to come up with the following headline?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alertnet.org\/thenews\/newsdesk\/N27337667.htm\"><strong>U.S. secret surveillance up sharply since Sept. 11<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, I should freakin&#8217; hope surveillance, both covert and overt, is sharply way the hell up since Islamist terror was brought to our shores!  We slept too long, snug in the comfort of the &#8217;90s while the radical Islamist bastards bared their fangs and drew American blood abroad.  It is this headline that leads me to believe that the surveillance issue will either fizzle or possibly backfire in the 2006 Congressional elections for the Dems, as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.captainsquartersblog.com\/mt\/\">Captain<\/a> shows us some centrist Democrats <a href=\"http:\/\/www.captainsquartersblog.com\/mt\/archives\/006024.php\">already fear<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; if only for their inanity. I realize we&#8217;re currently riding out the latest media- and Democrat-driven tempest &#8212; location likely to be in a teacup, but let&#8217;s let the story play out as it may &#8212; about electronic surveillance without judicial warrants of international communications with suspected terrorists. But honestly, how much are you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-our-media","category-politics","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}