{"id":1461,"date":"2005-10-17T01:14:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-17T01:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=1461"},"modified":"2005-10-17T01:14:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-17T01:14:00","slug":"1461","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=1461","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>WHY THE MORALLY CONFUSED UN BUREAUCRACY SHOULD NOT BE WRITING RULE-SETS ANY TIME SOON<\/b><\/p>\n<p>En route to researching something unrelated I stumbled across this gem today:<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><span style=\"color:#336666;\">&#8220;Yes, absolutely, I worry about a democracy having nuclear weapons as much as a dictatorship having nuclear weapons&#8221;<\/span><\/em><\/strong><br \/><strong><em><span style=\"color:#336666;\"><\/span><\/em><\/strong><br \/><strong><span style=\"color:#336666;\"><em><\/em>&#8211; Mohammed ElBareidei<em>, New York Times Magazine,<\/em> March 2, 2003.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Well now. I think in principle you could easily translate such sentiments to this:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes, absolutely, I worry about a policeman having a handgun as much as a gangbanger having a handgun&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHY THE MORALLY CONFUSED UN BUREAUCRACY SHOULD NOT BE WRITING RULE-SETS ANY TIME SOON En route to researching something unrelated I stumbled across this gem today: &#8220;Yes, absolutely, I worry about a democracy having nuclear weapons as much as a dictatorship having nuclear weapons&#8221;&#8211; Mohammed ElBareidei, New York Times Magazine, March 2, 2003. Well now. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}