{"id":60611,"date":"2015-02-28T12:00:24","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T17:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=60611"},"modified":"2015-02-27T15:58:22","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T20:58:22","slug":"community-organizers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=60611","title":{"rendered":"Community Organizers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/letters-to-the-editor.image_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-58702\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/letters-to-the-editor.image_.jpg\" alt=\"letters-to-the-editor.image_\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/letters-to-the-editor.image_.jpg 300w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/letters-to-the-editor.image_-150x114.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>(Cazenovia, NY \u2013 Feb. 2015) Kings, tyrants, and community organizers rely on power to achieve their goals.\u00a0\u00a0Kings use armies, tyrants use secret police, and community organizers use mobs.<\/p>\n<p>As a US immigrant, Dinesh D\u2019Souza understands, and captured in \u201cAmerica: Imagine the World without Her\u201d how America is different from previous governments.\u00a0\u00a0America\u2019s founders saw the need for a nation of, by, and for the people and created a nation ruled by laws and not the arbitrary whims of some king or tyrant.\u00a0\u00a0They were willing to die for their ideas.\u00a0\u00a0Americans for the status quo expected foreign soldiers (British) to die for their cause.<\/p>\n<p>Today, some are willing to die for ISIL while some of their opponents expect foreigners to die for their security.\u00a0\u00a0(In fairness, some ISIL opponents are willing to fight, but we are not willing to provide them with the weapons needed to win).<\/p>\n<p>Today, we are rapidly moving from a nation ruled by laws to one ruled by mobs.\u00a0\u00a0Instead of free speech, people willing to express their opinions in private gatherings are attacked in the media.\u00a0\u00a0Instead of innocent until proven guilty, people only accused (not even charged) are forced out of employment.<\/p>\n<p>Today, we see the tyranny of government passing laws and creating thousands of regulations that are selectively enforced to achieve political ends; and, the increasing use of social media in combination with the mainstream news media to spread propaganda to achieve whatever ends the community organizers have in mind.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0George Puzey,\u00a0Cazenovia, NY<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Cazenovia, NY \u2013 Feb. 2015) Kings, tyrants, and community organizers rely on power to achieve their goals.\u00a0\u00a0Kings use armies, tyrants use secret police, and community organizers use mobs. As a US immigrant, Dinesh D\u2019Souza understands, and captured in \u201cAmerica: Imagine the World without Her\u201d how America is different from previous governments.\u00a0\u00a0America\u2019s founders saw the need [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}