{"id":1615,"date":"2005-05-02T11:43:09","date_gmt":"2005-05-02T15:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2005\/05\/blackrobed_terr\/"},"modified":"2005-05-02T11:43:09","modified_gmt":"2005-05-02T15:43:09","slug":"blackrobed_terr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/05\/blackrobed_terr\/","title":{"rendered":"Black-Robed Terrorists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because some stupidity <a title=\"Robertson: Judges worse than Al Qaeda\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/front\/story\/305721p-261517c.html\">is worth repeating<\/a> to expose it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Federal judges are a more serious threat to America than Al Qaeda and the Sept. 11 terrorists, the Rev. Pat Robertson claimed yesterday.<br \/>\n&#8220;Over 100 years, I think the gradual erosion of the consensus that&#8217;s held our country together is probably more serious than a few bearded terrorists who fly into buildings,&#8221; Robertson said on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;This Week with George Stephanopoulos.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;I think we have controlled Al Qaeda,&#8221; the 700 Club host said, but warned of &#8220;erosion at home&#8221; and said judges were creating a &#8220;tyranny of oligarchy.&#8221;<br \/>\nConfronted by Stephanopoulos on his claims that an out-of-control liberal judiciary is the worst threat America has faced in 400 years &#8211; worse than Nazi Germany, Japan and the Civil War &#8211; Robertson didn&#8217;t back down.<br \/>\n&#8220;Yes, I really believe that,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I think they are destroying the fabric that holds our nation together.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kind of comical until it hits you: who do these people continue to get national air time?<br \/>\nVia <a href=\"http:\/\/atrios.blogspot.com\/2005_05_01_atrios_archive.html#111504730576091387\">Eschaton<\/a>.<br \/>\nUPDATE: Apparently there&#8217;s something even worse than liberal judge: a <a href=\"http:\/\/americablog.blogspot.com\/2005\/05\/robertson-sheldon-muslim-americans-not.html\">liberal <i>Muslim<\/i> judge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/05\/blackrobed_terr\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Black-Robed Terrorists\"><p>Because some stupidity is worth repeating to expose it: Federal judges are a more serious threat to America than Al Qaeda and the Sept. 11 terrorists, the Rev. Pat Robertson claimed yesterday. &#8220;Over 100 years, I think the gradual erosion of the consensus that&#8217;s held our country together is probably more serious than a few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1615","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}