{"id":176293,"date":"2020-07-19T19:17:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T00:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/07\/19\/yes-there-is-a-historical-precedent\/"},"modified":"2020-07-19T19:17:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T00:17:00","slug":"yes-there-is-a-historical-precedent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/07\/19\/yes-there-is-a-historical-precedent\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, There Is a Historical Precedent"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Hmm, Police Officers hiding their names and only obliged to identify themselves with a generic tag as a member of their organisation? Im sure I\u2019ve heard of that approach used somewhere before&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LJ1sfeEJbV\">pic.twitter.com\/LJ1sfeEJbV<\/a><\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Sam White (@Whitesv2128) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Whitesv2128\/status\/1284516844959936512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 18, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For those of you who do not understand the meaning of &#8220;Geheime Staatspolizei&#8221;, which translates to secret state police, which is generally referred to its contraction, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gestapo\">Gestapo<\/a>.<a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/Z0SX5ul.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/Z0SX5ul.jpg\" width=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The insistence of CBP that its agents will not carry any sort of external identification beyond a label saying, &#8220;Police&#8221; on the back of their uniforms has some profoundly ominous historical echoes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hmm, Police Officers hiding their names and only obliged to identify themselves with a generic tag as a member of their organisation? Im sure I\u2019ve heard of that approach used somewhere before&#8230; pic.twitter.com\/LJ1sfeEJbV \u2014 Sam White (@Whitesv2128) July 18, 2020 For those of you who do not understand the meaning of &#8220;Geheime Staatspolizei&#8221;, which translates &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[413,526],"class_list":["post-176293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-civil-rights","tag-law-enforcement-misconduct"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176293"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}