{"id":31,"date":"2008-02-09T00:35:01","date_gmt":"2008-02-09T05:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/?p=31"},"modified":"2008-02-09T22:19:16","modified_gmt":"2008-02-10T03:19:16","slug":"what-fourth-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/?p=31","title":{"rendered":"What Fourth Amendment?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An associate of mine, Nabila Mango, is an\u00a0American citizen\u00a0of Palestinian descent. Her problems\u00a0began when she returned to San Francisco\u00a0International Airport following a trip to Palestine.\u00a0For more than an hour she was detained by federal agents who, without any reasonable cause, demanded details of people she had encountered and places she had gone in her three-week trip, the names and addresses of relatives in Jordan, and information about her U.S.-born adult daughter. They leafed through Arab-language books in her luggage, lost interest when they discovered the books were about music theory, and erased cell-phone messages from her daughter, who was waiting outside the airport.<\/p>\n<p>Again, I am reminded of some of the stories my parents told\u00a0me about Nazi Germany.\u00a0Things are not as bad as they got there, but things were once much better there then they are here now. Links to articles in the news are below.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"San Jose Mercury News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/ci_8193407?IADID=Search-www.mercurynews.com-www.mercurynews.com&#038;nclick_check=1\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose Mercury News<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2008\/02\/08\/BAVQUUAJ8.DTL\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An associate of mine, Nabila Mango, is an\u00a0American citizen\u00a0of Palestinian descent. Her problems\u00a0began when she returned to San Francisco\u00a0International Airport following a trip to Palestine.\u00a0For more than an hour she was detained by federal agents who, without any reasonable cause, demanded details of people she had encountered and places she had gone in her three-week [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}