{"id":4821,"date":"2003-05-30T15:51:00","date_gmt":"2003-05-30T15:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=4821"},"modified":"2021-06-14T20:33:49","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T20:33:49","slug":"philly-says-no-to-patriot-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2003\/05\/30\/philly-says-no-to-patriot-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Philly Says No To PATRIOT Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alertnet.org\/thenews\/newsdesk\/N29237485.htm\">Philadelphia council condemns Patriot Act<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Philadelphia on Thursday became the largest U.S. city to date to condemn the USA Patriot Act as a threat to the constitutional rights of its citizens.<\/p>\n<p>By a 13-3 vote, the Democrat-dominated City Council passed a resolution calling on local members of Congress to work for the repeal of the federal law that granted the Justice Department broad new police powers for Washington&#8217;s so-called war on terrorism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It looks the the gloves are finally coming off on the PATRIOT Act.  Not everyone buys the hollow argument that there&#8217;s nothing wrong with subverting the Bill of Rights and circumventing judicial oversight.<\/p>\n<p>This entry also posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libertywatchtower.com\/archives\/000257.php\">The Watchtower<\/a>.  Link courtesy of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cair-net.org\/\">Council on American-Islamic Relations<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters on Philadelphia council condemns Patriot Act: Philadelphia on Thursday became the largest U.S. city to date to condemn the USA Patriot Act as a threat to the constitutional rights of its citizens. By&#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-4821","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-1fL","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\/4821","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=4821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7547,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4821\/revisions\/7547"}],"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=4821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}