{"id":565,"date":"2001-12-17T20:38:00","date_gmt":"2001-12-18T00:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=565"},"modified":"2001-12-17T20:38:00","modified_gmt":"2001-12-18T00:38:00","slug":"ben-franklin-enemy-of-the-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2001\/12\/17\/20\/38\/ben-franklin-enemy-of-the-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Franklin – Enemy of the State"},"content":{"rendered":"

Graduation speaker heckled, booed, forced off stage for quoting Ben Franklin<\/a>:
\nThey that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n

It’s good to see that two centuries later that old troublemaker can still raise the hackles of fascists.<\/p>\n

Franklin also said this:
\nWhoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Graduation speaker heckled, booed, forced off stage for quoting Ben Franklin: They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. It’s good to see that...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t