{"id":306,"date":"2010-05-02T12:20:25","date_gmt":"2010-05-02T19:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lesstoprofess.com\/?p=306"},"modified":"2010-05-03T11:38:25","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T18:38:25","slug":"amplified-rhetoric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesstoprofess.com\/?p=306","title":{"rendered":"Amplified Rhetoric"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kudos for a well written piece<\/strong><\/a> in today’s AZ Republic by Dennis Wagner, questioning alleged border violence.<\/p>\n

A media fury fueled by the recent death of a border rancher and the shooting of a deputy sheriff, in separate incidents, along Arizona’s southern border increases the stakes for politicians seeking reelection. In part, the passage of a tough new Arizona immigration law is a reflex by-product of political expediency, failing to account for the complexities of Arizona culture and ensuring unwarranted personal hardship and economic loss to the people of this state.<\/p>\n

The story corroborates rising trouble with kidnappings in Phoenix — mostly related to drug cartel power struggles — (thank you Ron Fears for earlier mention). But also dampens a general perception of mayhem generated by immigrants entering Arizona illegally along our southern border.<\/p>\n

Over-simplified, ham-handed solutions to an historically interwoven cultural-political problem, once again points to knee-jerk leadership in Arizona. Amplified rhetoric secures elections, but does little to protect borders in any useful way for citizens of the desert Southwest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kudos for a well written piece in today’s AZ Republic by Dennis Wagner, questioning alleged border violence. A media fury fueled by the recent death of a border rancher and the shooting of a deputy sheriff, in separate incidents, along Arizona’s southern border increases the stakes for politicians seeking reelection. In part, the passage of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[97,55,96],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-border-control","tag-fear-mongering","tag-immigration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesstoprofess.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesstoprofess.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesstoprofess.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesstoprofess.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesstoprofess.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lesstoprofess.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310,"href":"https:\/\/lesstoprofess.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions\/310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesstoprofess.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesstoprofess.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesstoprofess.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}