{"id":993,"date":"2004-06-30T11:30:41","date_gmt":"2004-06-30T15:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/06\/war_on_videotaping\/"},"modified":"2004-06-30T11:30:41","modified_gmt":"2004-06-30T15:30:41","slug":"war_on_videotaping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/06\/war_on_videotaping\/","title":{"rendered":"War on Videotaping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <i>New York Times<\/i> has the disturbing account about how a Nepalese man with an expired tourist visa was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/06\/30\/nyregion\/30deport.final.html?ex=1246248000&#038;en=478c4d216dcab2bd&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland\">held for three months in solitary confinement<\/a> for videotaping a building.<br \/>\nThe man essentially got buried within the system, with little contact to the outside, and were it not for the extraordinary efforts of an FBI agent involved in his capture, he might have been imprisoned much longer.<br \/>\nOne thing that continues to baffle me is how many so-called conservatives, who supposedly distrust broad, unchecked federal power, don&#8217;t join civil libertarians in protesting the abuses of individual rights in the &#8220;war on terror.&#8221;  Apparently to these people, party unity is much more important than self-identified principles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/06\/war_on_videotaping\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to War on Videotaping\"><p>The New York Times has the disturbing account about how a Nepalese man with an expired tourist visa was held for three months in solitary confinement for videotaping a building. The man essentially got buried within the system, with little contact to the outside, and were it not for the extraordinary efforts of an FBI [&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-993","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\/993","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=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}