{"id":789,"date":"2013-04-19T21:40:17","date_gmt":"2013-04-20T02:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/?p=789"},"modified":"2013-04-20T15:45:59","modified_gmt":"2013-04-20T20:45:59","slug":"what-does-it-mean-when-the-public-get-entranced-by-one-19-year-old-on-the-loose-in-boston-and-so-we-accept-a-general-lock-down-of-all-the-citizens-of-the-city-and-environs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/?p=789","title":{"rendered":"What does it mean when the public get entranced by one 19-year-old on the loose in Boston and so we accept a general lock-down of all the citizens of the city and environs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s my response to some Facebook posts and other panicky things I have heard re folks following the situation that is currently ongoing in Boston.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Turn off your TV and Smartphone. Take back control of your own life. We don&#8217;t own a TV and I&#8217;m not checking online (happened to be on Facebook). One 19-year-old on the loose and government shuts down a city. What craziness. Media rules the people, and who\/what rules the media? (I could discourse on that.) Imagine what would happen if someone destroyed our capitol building in Washington. Oops, that&#8217;s already happened, in Berlin in 1933, when a democratic government was lost to the people by government declaring emergency powers and the people, made fearful by the media, mostly stood by and let it happen. Don&#8217;t think it couldn&#8217;t happen here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reichstag_Fire_Decree\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reichstag_Fire_Decree<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cT<strong>he people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.\u201d Herman Goering 4\/18\/46 \u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/quotes\/goering.asp\">http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/quotes\/goering.asp<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article34626.htm\">http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article34626.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s my response to some Facebook posts and other panicky things I have heard re folks following the situation that is currently ongoing in Boston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peace","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789","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=789"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":791,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions\/791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}