{"id":288181,"date":"2017-01-02T11:51:56","date_gmt":"2017-01-02T10:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/eyes-wide-open\/"},"modified":"2017-01-02T11:51:56","modified_gmt":"2017-01-02T10:51:56","slug":"eyes-wide-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/eyes-wide-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Eyes Wide Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Any American<br \/>\nwho just recently<br \/>\nstarted screaming<br \/>\nabout the threat<br \/>\nof tyranny<br \/>\nafter Trump<br \/>\nemerged on the scene<br \/>\nmust quickly come<br \/>\nface to face<br \/>\nwith the harsh truth<br \/>\nthat they have arrived<br \/>\na little late<br \/>\nto the party.<\/p>\n<p>Where in the hell<br \/>\nhave you been<br \/>\nfor the past eight years?<\/p>\n<p>Where were you<br \/>\nwhen the IRS<br \/>\nwas being used<br \/>\nto target<br \/>\npolitical opposition<br \/>\nof the Obama administration?<\/p>\n<p>Where were you<br \/>\nwhen the military<br \/>\nwas sent in<br \/>\nto topple Gaddafi\u2019s regime<br \/>\nin Libya<br \/>\nwithout being authorized<br \/>\nby Congress,<br \/>\nbut instead<br \/>\nby some international<br \/>\nNATO decree?<\/p>\n<p>Where were you<br \/>\nwhen Obama<br \/>\nsent us sliding down<br \/>\na slippery slope<br \/>\nby becoming the first President<br \/>\nto kill an American citizen<br \/>\nwithout a trial?<\/p>\n<p>Where were you<br \/>\nwhen the NSA<br \/>\nwas exposed<br \/>\nby Snowden<br \/>\nfor spying<br \/>\non its own people,<br \/>\nnot to mention<br \/>\nin every other<br \/>\ncorner of the world?<\/p>\n<p>Where were you<br \/>\nwhen the bombs<br \/>\nstarted to drop<br \/>\nfrom drones<br \/>\nall across the Middle East<br \/>\nand Africa,<br \/>\nslaughtering countless<br \/>\ninnocent civilians<br \/>\nin countries<br \/>\nwe\u2019re supposedly<br \/>\nnot even at war with?<\/p>\n<p>Where were you<br \/>\nwhen the 2012 NDAA bill<br \/>\nwas signed into law,<br \/>\nofficially classifying<br \/>\nthe American homeland<br \/>\nas a battlefield<br \/>\nand thereby setting the stage<br \/>\nfor martial law<br \/>\nto be enacted<br \/>\nby the executive branch<br \/>\nat any future moment<br \/>\nit deems fit?<\/p>\n<p>Etcetera. Etcetera. Etcetera.<\/p>\n<p>You aren\u2019t Patriots;<br \/>\nyou\u2019re partisan hacks<br \/>\nwhose only allegiance<br \/>\nis to the ideology<br \/>\nof the particular<br \/>\npolitical cult<br \/>\nthat you choose to serve.<\/p>\n<p>You don\u2019t care<br \/>\nabout the Constitution<br \/>\nor the national sovereignty<br \/>\nof&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2017\/01\/eyes-wide-open\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Any American who just recently started screaming about the threat of tyranny after Trump emerged on the scene must quickly come face to face with the harsh truth that they have arrived a little late to the party. Where in the hell have you been for the past eight years? Where were you when the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-288181","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}