{"id":13433,"date":"2017-05-17T19:42:49","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T02:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=13433"},"modified":"2017-05-17T19:42:49","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T02:42:49","slug":"california-embraces-communists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2017\/05\/17\/california-embraces-communists\/","title":{"rendered":"California Embraces Communists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;California is poised to <a href=\"http:\/\/start.att.net\/news\/read\/article\/the_associated_press-california_may_end_ban_on_communists_in_government-ap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">end the ban<\/a> on actual and literal Communists being government employees.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Lawmakers narrowly approved the bill to repeal part of a law enacted during the Red Scare of the 1940s and &#8217;50s when fear that communists were trying to infiltrate and overthrow the U.S. government was rampant. [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;It would eliminate part of the law that allows public employees to be fired for being a member of the Communist Party.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Employees could still be fired for being members of organizations they know advocate for overthrowing the government by force or violence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5190\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/California-Communist-Bear-Flag.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"730\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/California-Communist-Bear-Flag.jpg 730w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/California-Communist-Bear-Flag-300x159.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Considering California&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2015\/10\/22\/microphone-fellatio-aficionado-attacks-civil-liberties-in-california\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">continuous<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2017\/04\/03\/california-and-the-death-of-the-rule-of-law\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">assault<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2017\/04\/12\/california-and-the-censoring-of-doubleplusungood-political-internet-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">actual<\/a> civil liberties, the idea that this move to embrace Communists is somehow a win for liberty is&#8230; questionable at best.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Get out of California&#8230; while you still can.<\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\"><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatblog\"><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalhat\"><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"California Embraces Communists\"><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"California is poised to end the ban on actual and literal Communists being government employees.\"><meta name=\"twitter:image:src\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/California-Communist-Bear-Flag.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;California is poised to end the ban on actual and literal Communists being government employees. &#8220;Lawmakers narrowly approved the bill to repeal part of a law enacted during the Red Scare of the 1940s and &#8217;50s when fear that communists &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2017\/05\/17\/california-embraces-communists\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[19,15,65],"class_list":["post-13433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-progressives","tag-communism","tag-democrats","tag-doom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13434,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13433\/revisions\/13434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}