{"id":654,"date":"2010-04-10T19:58:12","date_gmt":"2010-04-10T19:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/?p=654"},"modified":"2010-12-25T18:11:15","modified_gmt":"2010-12-26T01:11:15","slug":"live-free-or-die-in-the-show-me-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/2010\/04\/live-free-or-die-in-the-show-me-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Live Free Or Die In The Show-Me State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/RightwingBillboardMissouri.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/RightwingBillboardMissouri.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"RightwingBillboardMissouri\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-655\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/RightwingBillboardMissouri.jpg 400w, http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/RightwingBillboardMissouri-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>This giant billboard was posted along I-70 in Lafayette County, Missouri. If you can&#8217;t quite make it out, it displays this message: \u201cA Citizens Guide to Revolution of a corrupt government.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>It then displays the following list of actions:<\/p>\n<p>1. Starve the Beast.<br \/>\n2. Vote out incumbents.<br \/>\n3. If steps, 1 &#038; 2 fail?<\/p>\n<p>Prepare for War &#8211;Live Free or Die<\/p>\n<p>That billboard replaced a previous one:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/obama_nation_sign.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/obama_nation_sign.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"obama_nation_sign\" width=\"444\" height=\"263\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-656\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/obama_nation_sign.jpg 444w, http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/obama_nation_sign-300x177.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 444px) 100vw, 444px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/11\/20\/missouri-gop-billboard\/\">Think Progress<\/a>: &#8220;It\u2019s unclear who the owner of the billboard is, but the first one was the work of a &#8216;Missouri businessman.'&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Radical? <\/p>\n<p>Maybe, maybe. <\/p>\n<p>And yet in any society &#8212; and perhaps America most especially &#8212; you can restrict freedom only so much before people will naturally revolt, as people naturally should. <\/p>\n<p>Freedom is not &#8220;granted&#8221; by bureaucrats. Freedom is a birthright &#8212; to every single human being.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This giant billboard was posted along I-70 in Lafayette County, Missouri. If you can&#8217;t quite make it out, it displays this message: \u201cA Citizens Guide to Revolution of a corrupt government.\u201d It then displays the following list of actions: 1. Starve the Beast. 2. Vote out incumbents. 3. If steps, 1 &#038; 2 fail? Prepare &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/2010\/04\/live-free-or-die-in-the-show-me-state\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Live Free Or Die In The Show-Me State&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[3,622],"tags":[623,624,627,2619,625,626],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}