{"id":2295,"date":"2016-10-25T09:05:15","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T16:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/?p=2295"},"modified":"2022-08-24T11:36:40","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T18:36:40","slug":"tyranny-must-be-resisted-before-it-exists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/tyranny-must-be-resisted-before-it-exists\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyranny Must Be Resisted Before It Exists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.orthodoxnet.com\/z-img-lib\/TheVoiceBlog\/Americans_Fight_Tyranny_01.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Americans_Fight_Tyranny_01.jpg\" alt=\"Tyranny Must Be Resisted Before It Mortally Hurts Us\" width=\"820\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Americans_Fight_Tyranny_01.jpg 850w, https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Americans_Fight_Tyranny_01-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Americans_Fight_Tyranny_01-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;The wisest thing in the world is to cry out before you are hurt. It is no good to cry out after you are hurt; especially after you are mortally hurt. People talk about the impatience of the populace; but sound historians know that most tyrannies have been possible because men moved too late. It is often essential to resist a tyranny before it exists. It is no answer to say, with a distant optimism, that the scheme is only in the air. A blow from a hatchet can only be parried while it is in the air.&#8221; ~ G.K. Chesterton  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The wisest thing in the world is to cry out before you are hurt. It is no good to cry out after you are hurt; especially after you are mortally hurt. People talk about the impatience of the populace; but sound historians know that most tyrannies have been possible because men moved too late. It &#8230; <a title=\"Tyranny Must Be Resisted Before It Exists\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/tyranny-must-be-resisted-before-it-exists\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Tyranny Must Be Resisted Before It Exists\">[read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20,35,58,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-of-innocence","category-government-tyranny","category-leftist-tyranny","category-moral-issues"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}