{"id":990,"date":"2008-06-09T20:57:34","date_gmt":"2008-06-10T01:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=990"},"modified":"2008-06-09T20:57:34","modified_gmt":"2008-06-10T01:57:34","slug":"sign-the-declaration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=990","title":{"rendered":"Sign the Declaration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just got home from the Charter Revision Commission. We&#8217;re in the homestretch. Not much time to write, but I did want to pass this along. A friend from the West Coast sent me an email about an ad the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.constitutioncampaign.org\/ad\/\">Bill of Rights Defense Committee<\/a> wants to run in the Times on the Fourth of July. They are looking for signers. I got a kick out of it, because it does manage to echo the Declaration and makes a decent case that our King George is every bit as bad as that other one.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, nothing is free, and if you want to sign you have to pay. And yes, it did cross my mind that this would be an excellent ploy for a latter day <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/COINTELPRO\">COINTELPRO<\/a> to get subversives to pay to hand their names and addresses over to the FBI. However, I refuse to succumb to paranoia, so I signed up. I&#8217;ve uploaded the ad, which I&#8217;ve attached as a downloadable pdf. If you like what you read, add your John Hancock. After all, if we don&#8217;t hang together, we shall, eventually, all hang separately.<\/p>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/declaration-pyle.pdf'>Declaration Ad<\/a>.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just got home from the Charter Revision Commission. We&#8217;re in the homestretch. Not much time to write, but I did want to pass this along. A friend from the West Coast sent me an email about an ad the Bill of Rights Defense Committee wants to run in the Times on the Fourth of July. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bush"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}