{"id":498,"date":"2007-10-25T08:16:49","date_gmt":"2007-10-25T12:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=498"},"modified":"2007-10-25T08:16:49","modified_gmt":"2007-10-25T12:16:49","slug":"big-boss-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=498","title":{"rendered":"Big boss man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Commenters on the Washingtonpost.com website make all of the good points about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/10\/24\/AR2007102402337.html\">George Will&#8217;s latest failure<\/a> to understand that general rules of human behavior have obvious limitations while the imagination of those who would like to cheat does not.  <\/p>\n<p>>Restrictions on freedoms, and especially freedoms as fundamental as those of the First Amendment, require serious justifications. So the question is: To what pressing problem did the university&#8217;s $100 limit respond? Or is it merely another manifestation of <strong>the regnant liberalism common on most campuses &#8212; the itch to boss people around<\/strong>?   <\/p>\n<p>The reason for this?  Some kid broke the universities rules regarding spending for a school election.  Are the rules fair?  Maybe not.  But that&#8217;s got nothing to do with the McCain-Feingold campaign law:<\/p>\n<p>>Thus do the grossly anti-constitutional premises of McCain-Feingold seep through society, poisoning the practice of democracy at all levels<\/p>\n<p>Nor is &#8220;you&#8217;re not the boss of me&#8221; the proper response to rules you don&#8217;t agree with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commenters on the Washingtonpost.com website make all of the good points about George Will&#8217;s latest failure to understand that general rules of human behavior have obvious limitations while the imagination of those who would like to cheat does not. >Restrictions on freedoms, and especially freedoms as fundamental as those of the First Amendment, require serious &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=498\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Big boss man<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,7,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accident","category-will","category-straw-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}