{"id":30834,"date":"2020-10-10T19:06:44","date_gmt":"2020-10-11T00:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=30834"},"modified":"2020-10-10T19:06:44","modified_gmt":"2020-10-11T00:06:44","slug":"despite-all-the-shit-why-america-gives-me-confidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/10\/10\/despite-all-the-shit-why-america-gives-me-confidence\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite All The Shit, Why America Gives Me Confidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/volunteer-lawyers-will-advise-military-personnel-who-question-the-legality-of-orders-during-protests-election-disputes\/2020\/10\/09\/f4a04682-0a64-11eb-9be6-cf25fb429f1a_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">From<\/a> <em><strong>WaPo<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A group of lawyers is offering advice to military and National Guard members who worry they may be given unlawful orders if deployed during protests or disputes over next month\u2019s elections.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"www.ordersproject.org\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ordersproject.org\/\">The Orders Project<\/a>\u00a0was formed in response to the use of force against protesters this summer in\u00a0<a title=\"www.washingtonpost.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/investigations\/2020\/06\/08\/timeline-trump-church-photo-op\/?arc404=true&amp;itid=lk_inline_manual_2\">Lafayette Square<\/a>, two of the founders said in an interview Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The protests, which followed the death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis, prompted confusion among law enforcement and National Guard leaders. Some officials said they had no warning that the U.S. Park Police, which commanded the operation, planned to move against protesters and that the crowd could have been moved out of the area without the use of force.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In a truly selfish society, we&#8217;d never see a group come together, recognize a potential and difficult danger in the upcoming election, and donate their time and substantial expertise to try to fix it. That recognition of the importance of a democracy and peaceful transfer of power is going to be one of the things I think about on days when America&#8217;s future seems dark: there are good-hearted people out there, willing to do what they can to help ensure we stay on the path of peace, which is one of the first steps that will permit the pursuit of justice <strong>for all of us<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From WaPo: A group of lawyers is offering advice to military and National Guard members who worry they may be given unlawful orders if deployed during protests or disputes over next month\u2019s elections. The Orders Project\u00a0was formed in response to the use of force against protesters this summer in\u00a0Lafayette Square, \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/10\/10\/despite-all-the-shit-why-america-gives-me-confidence\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30835,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30834\/revisions\/30835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}