{"id":71952,"date":"2017-05-10T08:00:14","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T12:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=71952"},"modified":"2017-05-10T08:49:13","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T12:49:13","slug":"california-ends-commie-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71952","title":{"rendered":"California ends commie ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, and who would have guessed it, but California has a law on the books that makes being a communist could get you fired from your state government job. I guess the law was affecting the state&#8217;s access to the job pool, because the legislature moved to abrogate the ban according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2017\/05\/09\/california-bill-would-end-ban-on-communists-in-government-jobs.html\">Fox News<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Employees could still be fired for being members of organizations they know advocate for overthrowing the government by force or violence.<\/p>\n<p>The bill updates an outdated provision in state law, said Assemblyman Rob Bonta, the San Francisco Bay Area Democrat who authored the measure.<\/p>\n<p>Some Assembly Republicans said the Cold War-era law should not be changed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, there were actual communists or people who were paid by the Soviets to infiltrate the US government &#8211; in fact, Allen Weinstein, in his book &#8220;The Haunted Wood&#8221;, documented a <del datetime=\"2017-05-10T12:48:46+00:00\">California<\/del> New York Congressman on the Soviet payroll in the 1950s when Weinstein was granted access to the KGB archives after the fall of the Soviet Union. <\/p>\n<p>Communists do indeed want to take over the US government &#8211; ask any anti-FA terrorist. In fact, ask any Democrat how they feel about the Electoral College or the Second Amendment. Ask Bernie Sanders what he likes about the US government &#8211; when he was mayor of Burlington, Vermont, he used to brag that he is a communist.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Mick for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, and who would have guessed it, but California has a law on the books that &hellip; <a title=\"California ends commie ban\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71952\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">California ends commie ban<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-who-knows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}