{"id":767,"date":"2004-03-23T01:36:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-23T01:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=767"},"modified":"2018-08-10T08:40:04","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T13:40:04","slug":"767","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/23\/767\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Chapman Speaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With his relatively orthodox libertarianism, I am surprised the blogosphere doesn&#8217;t hang on the <i>Chicago Tribune<\/i>&#8216;s Steve Chapman&#8217;s every column (Mondays and Thursdays, kids).  Here he is today on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/columnists\/chi-0403210459mar21,1,6683447.column?coll=chi-news-col\" target=\"new\">New York&#8217;s newly-unconstitutional vehicle confiscation law<\/a> (registration required):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> This is a small but important victory for the proposition that Americans should not be punished without a demonstration of guilt. It&#8217;s also a blow to the government&#8217;s habit of using law enforcement to snatch property for its own enrichment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Word to power.  Or power to word.  Whichever one won&#8217;t flip the circuit breaker and make me tromp into the litter-cluttered dark of the basement in my bare feet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With his relatively orthodox libertarianism, I am surprised the blogosphere doesn&#8217;t hang on the Chicago Tribune&#8216;s Steve Chapman&#8217;s every column (Mondays and Thursdays, kids). Here he is today on New York&#8217;s newly-unconstitutional vehicle confiscation law (registration required): This is a small but important victory for the proposition that Americans should not be punished without a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22638,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions\/22638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}