{"id":313,"date":"2004-07-12T06:12:43","date_gmt":"2004-07-11T21:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/07\/12\/so-orwell-was-only-20-years-off-after-all\/"},"modified":"2005-07-18T00:34:07","modified_gmt":"2005-07-17T15:34:07","slug":"so-orwell-was-only-20-years-off-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/07\/12\/so-orwell-was-only-20-years-off-after-all\/","title":{"rendered":"So Orwell was only 20 years off, after all&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strike>Vaterland Sicherheit<\/strike> Homeland Security Agency has just come up with <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&amp;u=\/nm\/20040711\/ts_nm\/politics_election_terror_dc_2\" target=\"_new\">a brand new idea<\/a> to protect you.<\/p>\n<p>Choice quote (emphasis added):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In his letter, Soaries pointed out that [&#8230;] &#8220;the federal government has no agency that has the statutory authority to <b>cancel and reschedule a federal election.<\/b>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Soaries wants Ridge to ask Congress to pass legislation giving the government such power, Newsweek reported in its latest issue that hits the newsstands on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Homeland Security Department spokesman Brian Rochrkasse told the magazine the agency is reviewing the matter &#8220;to determine what steps need to be taken to <b>secure the election.<\/b>&#8220;<\/p>\n<div class=\"source\">Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&amp;u=\/nm\/20040711\/ts_nm\/politics_election_terror_dc_2\" target=\"_new\">Yahoo News<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2004\/07\/11\/homeland_security_fi.html\" target=\"_new\">BoingBoing<\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So let me get this straight: a member of the <i>current executive branch<\/i> (whose very election is itself a point of controversy) is considering asking the legislative branch to pass a law, that would in effect put the decision to renew the <i>executive branch<\/i> into the hands of&#8230; <i>the executive branch<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Yea, if that sounds like a lot of <i>executive branch<\/i> in the same sentence, that&#8217;s because <b>it is<\/b>. Somehow I get the nagging feeling this plan doesn&#8217;t go in the overall direction of <i>more <\/i> Check and Balance. <\/p>\n<p>Just remember people, War on Terrorism is Peace, Slavery is Freedom and who needs a goddamn election anyway?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Homeland Security is working on securing your elections&#8230; Don&#8217;t you feel safer already?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-ranting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}