{"id":363673,"date":"2018-06-01T14:59:40","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T13:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/whose-country-is-this-lewrockwell\/"},"modified":"2018-06-01T14:59:40","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T13:59:40","slug":"whose-country-is-this-lewrockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/whose-country-is-this-lewrockwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Whose Country Is This? – LewRockwell"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cThe first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread. When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out \u2018stop!\u2019 When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.\u201d \u2015\u00a0Bertolt\u00a0Brecht,\u00a0Selected Poems<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

There are days I wake up, and I\u2019m not sure what country I live in anymore.<\/p>\n

There are days I wake up and want to go right back to sleep in the hopes that this surreal landscape of government-sanctioned injustice, corruption and brutality is just a really bad dream.<\/p>\n

There are days I am so battered by the never-ending wave of bad news that I have little outrage left in me: I am numb.<\/p>\n

And then I get hold of myself, shake myself out of the doldrums, and remind myself that it\u2019s not yet time to give up: America needs our outrage and our alertness and our tenacity and our fierce determination to remain a free people in a land where justice matters.<\/p>\n

This is still\u00a0our<\/em>\u00a0country.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t just sit there.<\/p>\n

Do something.
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\u201cThe first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread. When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out \u2018stop!\u2019 When crimes begin […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-363673","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\/363673","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}