{"id":299,"date":"2005-03-07T00:46:16","date_gmt":"2005-03-07T05:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=299"},"modified":"2005-03-06T11:47:03","modified_gmt":"2005-03-06T16:47:03","slug":"godwins-law-proven-in-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=299","title":{"rendered":"Godwin&#8217;s law proven, in Congress!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Godwin's_law\">Godwin&#8217;s Law<\/a> used to be a phenomenon that was often thought to be confined to online places of discussion, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.giganews.com\/\">usenet<\/a>.  But it looks like it<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/ALLPOLITICS\/03\/03\/byrd.hitlerremark.ap\/index.html\"> just played itself out in Congress:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Byrd cited Hitler&#8217;s 1930s rise to power by, in part, pushing legislation through the German parliament that seemed to legitimize his ascension.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini&#8217;s Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men,&#8221; Byrd said. &#8220;But witness how men with motives and a majority can manipulate law to cruel and unjust ends.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Godwin&#8217;s Law was proven true in the Senate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sociopolitical-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}