{"id":44754,"date":"2015-05-09T17:24:08","date_gmt":"2015-05-09T17:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=44754"},"modified":"2015-05-09T17:24:44","modified_gmt":"2015-05-09T17:24:44","slug":"mccarthy-at-the-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=44754","title":{"rendered":"McCarthy at the border?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; questions that come too close for comfort ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>As usual, I&#8217;m about the business of comparing and contrasting &#8212; this time comparing a question asked of visitors to the US <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emptywheel.net\/2015\/05\/05\/as-fbi-considers-declaring-state-secrets-over-its-religion-training-ice-releases-its-martyrdom-border-entry-questions\/\">at the Canadian border<\/a> with the key question asked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2000\/jun\/17\/history.politics\">in the McCarthy era<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/SPEC-DQ-McCarthy-border.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/SPEC-DQ-McCarthy-border.png\" alt=\"SPEC DQ McCarthy &amp; border\" width=\"602\" height=\"633\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-44755\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/SPEC-DQ-McCarthy-border.png 602w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/SPEC-DQ-McCarthy-border-285x300.png 285w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The similarity is close enough to serve as food for thought, no?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; questions that come too close for comfort ] . As usual, I&#8217;m about the business of comparing and contrasting &#8212; this time comparing a question asked of visitors to the US at the Canadian border with the key question asked in the McCarthy era. The similarity is close enough to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[361,526,627,187,533,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-charles-cameron","category-doublequotes","category-politics","category-religion","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44754","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44754"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44769,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44754\/revisions\/44769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}