{"id":17271,"date":"2014-05-23T01:22:34","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T08:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=17271"},"modified":"2014-05-23T01:22:34","modified_gmt":"2014-05-23T08:22:34","slug":"friday-links-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/23\/friday-links-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>For the first time, the heroic Ladar Levison tells the details of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2014\/may\/20\/why-did-lavabit-shut-down-snowden-email\" target=\"_blank\">why he had to shut down Lavabit<\/a> rather than betray his customers.\n<li>The &#8220;saddest tourist destination&#8221; in America just got worse because of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/saddest-tourist-destination-just-got-worse-2014-5\" target=\"_blank\">the evil it&#8217;s trying to perpetrate<\/a> against an innocent man. Shades of Kelo.\n<li>And speaking of <a href=\"http:\/\/flyoverpress.wordpress.com\/2014\/05\/22\/alpine-texas-bold-witness-to-alleged-abuse-by-federal-agents-comes-forward\/\" target=\"_blank\">governments perpetrating evils<\/a> against the innocent &#8230; (H\/T and thanks to JTLaB)\n<li>Kurt Hofmann <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/anti-veteran-police-state-apologist-inadvertently-gets-one-thing-right\" target=\"_blank\">gives it good and hard<\/a> to the tyranno-cop who claimed police militarization was needed because of those non-existent rising rates of violent crime. And to fight American military veterans.\n<li>Those Texas open-carry activists whose tactics of carrying long guns into businesses have proven so &#8230; counterproductive, to say the least &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/gunssavelives.net\/press-releases\/texas-gun-rights-groups-issue-statement-on-open-carry-clarify-stance-on-long-gun-carry\/#\" target=\"_blank\">are learning from their mistakes<\/a>.\n<li>Another brilliant one one from Wendy McElroy: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailybell.com\/editorials\/35328\/Wendy-McElroy-If-You-Meet-John-Galt-On-The-Road-Kill-Him\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;If you meet John Galt on the Road, Kill Him.&#8221;<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, the heroic Ladar Levison tells the details of why he had to shut down Lavabit rather than betray his customers. The &#8220;saddest tourist destination&#8221; in America just got worse because of the evil it&#8217;s trying to perpetrate against an innocent man. Shades of Kelo. And speaking of governments perpetrating evils against the innocent &#8230; (H\/T and thanks to JTLaB) Kurt Hofmann gives it good and hard to the tyranno-cop who claimed police militarization was needed because of those non-existent rising rates of violent crime. And to fight American military veterans. Those Texas open-carry activists whose tactics&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/23\/friday-links-24\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday links<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19,23,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}