{"id":468,"date":"2002-12-22T22:25:21","date_gmt":"2002-12-22T22:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-468.html"},"modified":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","modified_gmt":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","slug":"no-fly-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2002\/12\/22\/no-fly-zone\/","title":{"rendered":"No-fly zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stories like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/orig3\/monahan1.html\">this one<\/a> are becoming increasingly prevalent of late (<i>via <a href=\"http:\/\/webword.com\">WebWord<\/a><\/i>).  Some of them are simply made up, some are exaggerated to make for better propaganda, but some of them are just true.  It makes me a little bit worried that with all the anti-war, anti-capitalist, and anti-Bush stuff I&#8217;ve written this last year, I&#8217;ll find myself on a no-fly list when Scott and I do our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toadthewetsprocket.com\/\">Toad the Wet Sprocket<\/a> road trip next year.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see. I do find it encouraging, though, that both right- and left-wing voices (the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/\">Lew Rockwell<\/a> site on which this article appeared bills itself as &#8220;the premier anti-state, pro-market site on the net&#8221;&#8211;not my usual reading matter) in the US are expressing dismay and fear over the policies and practices that could turn the USA into a police state.  &#8220;Land of the free,&#8221; and all that, remember?<\/p>\n<p>And while I&#8217;m in the politics\/economics zone anyway, Andrew Orlowski in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/\">The Register<\/a> has an interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/content\/7\/28661.html\">article about the beginnings of a backlash against short-termism in investment markets<\/a>.  Well worth reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stories like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/orig3\/monahan1.html\">this one<\/a> are becoming increasingly prevalent of late (<i>via <a href=\"http:\/\/webword.com\">WebWord<\/a><\/i>).  Some of them are simply made up, some are exaggerated to make for better propaganda, but some of them are just true.  It makes me a little bit worried that with all the anti-war, anti-capitalist, and anti-Bush stuff I&#8217;ve written this last year, I&#8217;ll find myself on a no-fly list when Scott and I do our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toadthewetsprocket.com\/\">Toad the Wet Sprocket<\/a> road trip next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics_and_economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}