{"id":365,"date":"2006-01-27T12:51:44","date_gmt":"2006-01-27T19:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=365"},"modified":"2006-01-27T12:51:44","modified_gmt":"2006-01-27T19:51:44","slug":"because-its-been-a-while","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2006\/01\/27\/because-its-been-a-while\/","title":{"rendered":"Because It&#8217;s been a while"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"004028\"><\/a>&#8230; it&#8217;s about time I gave a Lyndon LaRouche update.<\/p>\n<p>You do realize there&#8217;s a possibility these two blogs are describing the same happenstance?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/questforquiet.blogspot.com\/2006\/01\/amplified-sound-truck-in-downtown-dc.html\">It was a voice. It was a loud, amplified voice. It echoed off the sides of buildings and down the street. I peered down from my perch and could see a mini-van inching its way through traffic. A large, gray loudspeaker was mounted on its roof. A sign, which I could not read from my vantage point, hung on the door. I could hear the voice clearly up six stories and through sealed windows. The booming voice touted the virtues of Lyndon LaRouche.<\/p>\n<p>Politics aside, this noise pollution, parading as \u201camplified free speech,\u201d apparently is legal in Washington, D.C. How would our world be if everyone placed a loudspeaker on their car or on their corner? And what about the free speech rights of those who cannot afford an amplified loudspeaker?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Compare that description with this other description of LaRouchite outside a building with a bullhorn.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/we.are.outoffoc.us\/2006\/01\/26\/you-dont-go-to-war-with-plain-old-laws\/\">Also there\u2019s a Lyndon LaRouche supporter in a minivan circling our office\u2019s block with a mounted loudspeaker, encouraging all the powerless drones in these buildings to \u201cFilibuster Alito\u201d. Which, incidentally, should be an Italian Sandwich shop franchise name.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Both are in Washington, DC.  So do we have two bloggers peering out their window at the same LaRouche supporter with a loudspeaker?  I think we do!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; it&#8217;s about time I gave a Lyndon LaRouche update. You do realize there&#8217;s a possibility these two blogs are describing the same happenstance? It was a voice. It was a loud, amplified voice. It echoed off the sides of buildings and down the street. I peered down from my perch and could see a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-larouche-challenge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}