{"id":14265,"date":"2012-05-19T13:41:15","date_gmt":"2012-05-19T17:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=14265"},"modified":"2012-05-22T13:35:27","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T17:35:27","slug":"the-frightening-power-of-tyrannical-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/14265\/the-frightening-power-of-tyrannical-government\/","title":{"rendered":"The Frightening Power of Tyrannical Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And yes, it is right here in these United States.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/when-government-is-the-looter\/2012\/05\/18\/gIQAUIKVZU_story.html\" target=\"_blank\"> George Will&#8217;s column<\/a> is a must-read for anybody who cares about liberty. This is sickening stuff we are seeing, and most Americans keep marching toward the executioner.<\/p>\n<p>Writing about a motel owned by one Russ Caswell, a law-abiding citizen, here&#8217;s Will:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The U.S. Department of Justice intends to seize it, sell it for perhaps $1.5 million and give up to 80 percent of that to the Tewksbury Police Department, whose budget is just $5.5 million. The Caswells have not been charged with, let alone convicted of, a crime. They are being persecuted by two governments eager to profit from what is antiseptically called the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ij.org\/inequitable-justice\">equitable sharing<\/a>\u201d of the fruits of civil forfeiture, a process of government enrichment that often is indistinguishable from robbery.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Scary stuff. The government increasingly has become evil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And yes, it is right here in these United States. George Will&#8217;s column is a must-read for anybody who cares about liberty. This is sickening stuff we are seeing, and most Americans keep marching toward the executioner. Writing about a motel owned by one Russ Caswell, a law-abiding citizen, here&#8217;s Will: The U.S. Department of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1501,2654],"class_list":["post-14265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-george-will","tag-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14265"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14267,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14265\/revisions\/14267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}