{"id":2459270,"date":"2020-06-07T23:20:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T05:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/whos-trampling-whose-rights\/"},"modified":"2020-06-08T06:56:40","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T12:56:40","slug":"whos-trampling-whose-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/whos-trampling-whose-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Who\u2019s trampling whose rights?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">I agree with Maurice Emmer when he writes \u201cMany of our institutions have really crappy leadership.\u201d ( <a id=\"N0x1314bd0N0x115a990:N0x1314bd0N0x1172640\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/looting-prevails-while-leadership-wanes\/\">\u201cLooting prevails while leadership wanes,\u201d <\/a>letters June 6, The Aspen Times). But Maurice aims too low: the top of the list should be President Trump followed by Leader McConnell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Maurice also has blinders to the specter of a military force, devoid of name badges or identifying insignia (recall the Gestapo was anonymous), cobbled together by the chief executive to \u201cprotect\u201d the people of Washington, D.C., from themselves. When you remove the trop of law and order as justifying a disproportional response to peaceful protest, Maurice, will you be clear-eyed enough to recognize that the government has also trampled on your rights? <\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Neil B. Siegel<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Aspen<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/whos-trampling-whose-rights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I agree with Maurice Emmer when he writes \u201cMany of our institutions have really crappy leadership.\u201d ( \u201cLooting prevails while leadership wanes,\u201d letters June 6, The Aspen Times). But Maurice aims too low: the top of the list should be President Trump followed by Leader McConnell. Maurice also has blinders to the specter of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2459270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-17 02:13:05","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2459270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2459277,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459270\/revisions\/2459277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2459270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2459270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2459270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}