{"id":924,"date":"2011-06-28T18:03:30","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T01:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=924"},"modified":"2011-09-03T00:13:25","modified_gmt":"2011-09-03T07:13:25","slug":"ted-rall-political-scientist-argues-the-u-s-is-a-police-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=924","title":{"rendered":"Ted Rall: political scientist argues the U.S. is a police state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States is a police state.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Not in danger of becoming one.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0Is.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s too late to restore democracy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/home.php#!\/note.php?note_id=10150246450378744\">That&#8217;s All Folks!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/untitled.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-933\" title=\"untitled\" src=\"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/untitled.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"268\" height=\"188\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/49219_500182857_38_n.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States is a police state.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Not in danger of becoming one. \u00c2\u00a0Is. And it&#8217;s too late to restore democracy. That&#8217;s All Folks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}