{"id":1040,"date":"2007-09-09T19:55:50","date_gmt":"2007-09-10T00:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1040"},"modified":"2007-09-09T19:55:50","modified_gmt":"2007-09-10T00:55:50","slug":"i-was-not-a-red-plan-opponent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1040","title":{"rendered":"I was not a Red Plan opponent&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I run into folks who tell me that we&#8217;ve elected the School Board to make decisions like adopting the Red Plan without allowing us to excercise our traditional right to vote. <\/p>\n<p>This willingness to sacrifice long held rights is dangerous. The best antidote to this sloppy thinking is to think of something you have a right to do and imagine another person taking your right to do it away because they don&#8217;t want you to get your way. <\/p>\n<p>Dear Abby used to put it this way: <\/p>\n<p>First they came for the Jews<br \/>\nand I did not speak out<br \/>\nbecause I was not a Jew.<br \/>\nThen they came for the Communists<br \/>\nand I did not speak out<br \/>\nbecause I was not a Communist.<br \/>\nThen they came for the trade unionists<br \/>\nand I did not speak out<br \/>\nbecause I was not a trade unionist.<br \/>\nThen they came for me<br \/>\nand there was no one left<br \/>\nto speak out for me.<\/p>\n<p>In Duluth the mantra would begin:<\/p>\n<p>First they came for the Red Plan opponents<br \/>\nbut I was not a Red Plan opponent<br \/>\nso I didn&#8217;t speak out. . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I run into folks who tell me that we&#8217;ve elected the School Board to make decisions like adopting the Red Plan without allowing us&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}