{"id":4814,"date":"2003-05-05T17:58:00","date_gmt":"2003-05-05T17:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=4814"},"modified":"2021-06-14T20:36:30","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T20:36:30","slug":"unitarians-take-on-the-patriot-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2003\/05\/05\/unitarians-take-on-the-patriot-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Unitarians Take on the PATRIOT Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Sullivan of the The Salt Lake Tribune on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/2003\/May\/05052003\/utah\/53927.asp\">USA Patriot Act Faces Opposition<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Two dozen curious citizens received a lesson on the USA Patriot Act on Saturday at the South Valley Unitarian Universalist Society &#8212; as well as some strong opinions about its consequences.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you print out the U.S. Constitution, it&#8217;s two pages,&#8221; said Aaron Turpen, one of the event&#8217;s organizers. &#8220;It took the government 131 pages to screw it up. . . . And we&#8217;re the ones who are letting it be torn up.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The PATRIOT Act isn&#8217;t the only thing that should be facing opposition.  Any worthless sack of meat who voted for the bill should get a pinkslip.<\/p>\n<p>This entry also posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libertywatchtower.com\/archives\/000156.php\">The Watchtower<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Sullivan of the The Salt Lake Tribune on USA Patriot Act Faces Opposition Two dozen curious citizens received a lesson on the USA Patriot Act on Saturday at the South Valley Unitarian Universalist&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,21],"tags":[128],"class_list":["post-4814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-from-the-editor","category-tma-editorials-by-james-a-landrith-jr","tag-civil-liberties"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1fE","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Editors-Corner.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7552,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4814\/revisions\/7552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}