{"id":1393,"date":"2016-07-08T06:35:30","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T10:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bbark.deepforestproductions.com\/column\/?p=1393"},"modified":"2016-07-08T20:26:05","modified_gmt":"2016-07-09T00:26:05","slug":"how-to-control-a-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbark.deepforestproductions.com\/column\/2016\/07\/08\/how-to-control-a-population\/","title":{"rendered":"How to control a population"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Step 1: Subversively retract and\/or subdue rights.<br \/>\nStep 2: Fill the void with pop culture nonsense and &#8220;reality&#8221; programing to keep them distracted from Step 1.<br \/>\nStep 3: Make the population forget they had rights to begin with.<br \/>\nRepeat.<\/p>\n<p>A remarkable 39 percent of Americans are unable to name any of the rights guaranteed by the First Amendment, according to the Newseum Institute\u2019s annual survey on the subject.<br \/>\nBarely half \u2014 54 percent \u2014 of Americans know that free speech is guaranteed by the First Amendment, according to the study.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2016\/07\/07\/study-39-percent-of-americans-dont-know-purpose-of-first-amendment\/#ixzz4DoQZnVOR\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2016\/07\/07\/study-39-percent-of-americans-dont-know-purpose-of-first-amendment\/#ixzz4DoQZnVOR<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Step 1: Subversively retract and\/or subdue rights. Step 2: Fill the void with pop culture nonsense and &#8220;reality&#8221; programing to keep them distracted from Step 1. Step 3: Make the population forget they had rights to begin with. Repeat. A remarkable 39 percent of Americans are unable to name any <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bbark.deepforestproductions.com\/column\/2016\/07\/08\/how-to-control-a-population\/\" title=\"How to control a population\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","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":[460,381,463,462,380],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-literacy","category-politics","category-schools","category-society"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbark.deepforestproductions.com\/column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbark.deepforestproductions.com\/column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbark.deepforestproductions.com\/column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbark.deepforestproductions.com\/column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbark.deepforestproductions.com\/column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1393"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bbark.deepforestproductions.com\/column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1398,"href":"https:\/\/bbark.deepforestproductions.com\/column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393\/revisions\/1398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbark.deepforestproductions.com\/column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbark.deepforestproductions.com\/column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbark.deepforestproductions.com\/column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}