{"id":1236,"date":"2005-04-04T22:44:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-05T03:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=1236"},"modified":"2005-04-04T22:44:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-05T03:44:00","slug":"how-odd-explore-freedom-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=1236","title":{"rendered":"how odd… Explore Freedom USA!"},"content":{"rendered":"

When browsing a gaming website, one of the banner ads was for ExploreFreedomUSA.org<\/a>. The use of the keyword “freedom” as in “they hate us for our freedom”, and “freedom fries”, “freedom to starve” and related patriotism-justifies-anything bullshit, suggested to me probable republican ties. Curious as to the political leanings of my favorite how-to-craft-X-in-ffxi website, I checked it out. It has a one sentence thing about homeland security, saying that it’s everyone’s business. Report suspicious things. (Turn your neighbor in, if you’re a good party member you’ll do it). <\/p>\n

But it also has extensive linkage on the first amendment. The only one I browsed was talking about overprotective hyperreaction<\/a> to something that smacked school officials as vaguely collumbine-ish. Apparently a killed was expelled and spent 3 days in jail for something he’d drawn two years ago, that his brother unknowingly brought to school, and accidentally displayed. Hmmm, sounds a little more protecting free speech, not something I associate with republicanism these days (unless by “speech” you mean “campaign contributions”). <\/p>\n

Then there was the get out the youth vote thing. Something I associate with thoroughly democratic strategies. *shrug* I have no idea what to make of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When browsing a gaming website, one of the banner ads was for ExploreFreedomUSA.org. The use of the keyword “freedom” as in “they hate us for our freedom”, and “freedom fries”, “freedom to starve” and related patriotism-justifies-anything bullshit, suggested to me probable republican ties. Curious as to the political leanings of my favorite how-to-craft-X-in-ffxi website, I … Continue reading “how odd… Explore Freedom USA!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}