{"id":218,"date":"2008-04-26T08:56:41","date_gmt":"2008-04-26T16:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/?p=218"},"modified":"2008-04-26T08:56:41","modified_gmt":"2008-04-26T16:56:41","slug":"a-nation-of-criminals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/a-nation-of-criminals\/","title":{"rendered":"A nation of criminals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dba-oracle.com\/images\/tsa_profiling.jpg\"height=\"120\" width=\"120\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p>Peggy Noonan, among the finest writers alive, <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB120906741679842493.html?mod=opinion_columns_featured_lsc\">laments the treatment<\/a> of middle-aged women by the TSA.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>All the frisking, beeping and patting down is demoralizing to our society. It breeds resentment, encourages a sense that the normal are not in control, that common sense is yesterday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Having just spent another week on the road, I will add only this:  The president and his fear hawks will say &#8220;Noonan doesn&#8217;t get it.  (Or, Hodak doesn&#8217;t get it.)  This is a war against terrorism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It isn&#8217;t, Mr. President.  It&#8217;s a war against your own people.  Osama bin Laden created only few hundred criminals.  You created a nation of criminals.  As Noonan points out:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But America knows not to ask. America is guilty until proved innocent, and no one wants to draw undue attention.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peggy Noonan, among the finest writers alive, laments the treatment of middle-aged women by the TSA. All the frisking, beeping and patting down is demoralizing to our society. It breeds resentment, encourages a sense that the normal are not in control, that common sense is yesterday. Having just spent another week on the road, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}