{"id":186882,"date":"2013-09-07T20:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-08T01:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/09\/07\/how-ordinary-people-can-do-heroic-things\/"},"modified":"2013-09-07T20:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-08T01:59:00","slug":"how-ordinary-people-can-do-heroic-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/09\/07\/how-ordinary-people-can-do-heroic-things\/","title":{"rendered":"How Ordinary People Can Do Heroic things\u2026\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Susan De Guardiolia has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/susan.de.guardiola\/posts\/626710157359704\">confronted the bureaucratic agents of tyranny<\/a>, and she won:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/iZM6KTG.png\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fundamentally, the routine expansion of what can only be described as a creeping police state can be stopped by citizens who know their rights.<\/p>\n<p>You do not have to be a lawyer to do this.<\/p>\n<p>You simply have to know a few things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Am I being detained?<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>If the answer is no, leave.&nbsp; If they refuse to answer, repeat the question, <b>politely<\/b>. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>If a policeman asks to search your belongings (including vehicle), then they <b>need your consent to search<\/b>.&nbsp; Clearly state your refusal to consent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Police officers will frequently make voluntary compliance appear mandatory.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Know your rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Susan De Guardiolia has confronted the bureaucratic agents of tyranny, and she won: Fundamentally, the routine expansion of what can only be described as a creeping police state can be stopped by citizens who know their rights. You do not have to be a lawyer to do this. You simply have to know a few &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,1169,1041,1181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-heroism","category-law-enforcement-misconduct","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186882"}],"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=186882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}