{"id":4230,"date":"2011-10-12T07:33:13","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T13:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4230"},"modified":"2011-10-12T07:33:14","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T13:33:14","slug":"let%e2%80%99s-gaze-upon-the-corpse-of-the-fourth-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4230","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s gaze upon the corpse of the Fourth Amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fabiusmaximus.wordpress.com\/2011\/10\/12\/29607\/\">Fabius Maximus:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Summary:  Most of the Bill of Rights has been de facto voided, as Courts sometimes \u2014 or often \u2014 rely on specious logic to ignore the word\u2019s plain meaning.  A few phrases retain their force, giving us the illusion of liberty (eg, we are well-armed sheep).  Over time the dead area probably will continue to expand, the arrival of the inevitable again surprising us.  Here we look at the corpse of the fourth amendment.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Look, in this place ran Cassius\u2019 dagger through:<br \/>\nSee what a rent the envious Casca made:<br \/>\nThrough this the well-beloved Brutus stabb\u2019d;<br \/>\nAnd as he pluck\u2019d his cursed steel away \u2026<\/p>\n<p>Good friends, sweet friends, let me not stir you up<br \/>\nTo such a sudden flood of mutiny.<br \/>\nThey that have done this deed are honourable:<br \/>\nWhat private griefs they have, alas, I know not,<br \/>\nThat made them do it: they are wise and honourable,<br \/>\nAnd will, no doubt, with reasons answer you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fabius Maximus: Summary: Most of the Bill of Rights has been de facto voided, as Courts sometimes \u2014 or often \u2014 rely on specious logic to ignore the word\u2019s plain meaning. A few phrases retain their force, giving us the illusion of liberty (eg, we are well-armed sheep). Over time the dead area probably will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,44,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4230"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4231,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4230\/revisions\/4231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}