{"id":131744,"date":"2016-10-07T22:13:51","date_gmt":"2016-10-08T04:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/07\/civil-liberties-end-when-an-attack-on-our-safety-begins.html"},"modified":"2016-10-07T22:13:51","modified_gmt":"2016-10-08T04:13:51","slug":"civil-liberties-end-when-an-attack-on-our-safety-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/07\/civil-liberties-end-when-an-attack-on-our-safety-begins.html","title":{"rendered":"&quot;CIVIL LIBERTIES END WHEN AN ATTACK ON OUR SAFETY BEGINS!&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So wrote Donald Trump back in the late 80s about a notorious rape in Central Park. The arrested youths were clearly deserving of as painful and awful a punishment as could be devised.<\/p>\n<p>Except that DNA evidence later exonerated them. <\/p>\n<p>Except that the Donald doesn&#39;t believe in DNA evidence. The Donald knows who&#39;s guilty, and who should be punished. Or, even if they are innocent, who should be punished so as to provide an object lesson for others.<\/p>\n<p>The King&#39;s Justice is sometimes swift, but always unpleasant.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2016\/10\/donald-trump-doesnt-care-if-youre-innocent\/503411\/?utm_source=atlgp'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/fwrtX5EdqLYeJLN41mP5guauH6AXoPg1xEb-b2Kv3cIePitIuqungS9cseOjtLDFWU6tbSx7njPkwJEnso8aOZgQD9pFEN6hJVv0X7hZ7Yfu-uJjWHrIV8zYweaSvNM9dj_IKvmQaPOt=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2016\/10\/donald-trump-doesnt-care-if-youre-innocent\/503411\/?utm_source=atlgp'>Donald Trump and the Central Park Five &#8211; The Atlantic<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nThe Republican nominee continues to insist that five men exonerated in a notorious case were guilty.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/2LdbrGbowEJ'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So wrote Donald Trump back in the late 80s about a notorious rape in Central Park. The arrested youths were clearly deserving of as painful and awful a punishment as could be devised. Except that DNA evidence later exonerated them. Except that the Donald doesn&#39;t believe in DNA evidence. The Donald knows who&#39;s guilty, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/07\/civil-liberties-end-when-an-attack-on-our-safety-begins.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&quot;CIVIL LIBERTIES END WHEN AN ATTACK ON OUR SAFETY BEGINS!&quot;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":130336,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/30\/donald-trump-may-have-found-a-position-too-extreme-for-him-to-take.html","url_meta":{"origin":131744,"position":0},"title":"Donald Trump may have found a position too extreme for him to take","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 30-Mar-16 10:48pm","format":false,"excerpt":"As he backs off of his clear (if \"in the middle of thinking about it\") statement that, under the anti-abortion laws that he would (now) promulgate as President, women would be prosecuted for getting abortions.Of course, his back-track that, instead, doctors would be criminally punished for providing abortions to women\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":160960,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2026\/01\/19\/the-toddler-in-chief.html","url_meta":{"origin":131744,"position":1},"title":"The Toddler-in-Chief","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 19-Jan-26 12:01pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Watching a toddler throw a tantrum is sometimes amusing, often aggravating. 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