{"id":114,"date":"2004-12-10T22:14:38","date_gmt":"2004-12-11T06:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/bobby-fuller-vs-jpb\/"},"modified":"2004-12-10T22:14:38","modified_gmt":"2004-12-11T06:14:38","slug":"bobby-fuller-vs-jpb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/bobby-fuller-vs-jpb\/","title":{"rendered":"Bobby Fuller vs. JPB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I <a href=\"\/blog\/archive\/random-searches-at-abia\">posted a few months ago<\/a> about my dismay that airport police at ABIA are now conducting random searches of vehicles driving up to the terminal. In the very same post, I linked Bruce Schneier&#8217;s site. He&#8217;s a well-known security expert who gives very good explantions of why random searches are ultimately ineffective.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward to today &#8211; I&#8217;m a frequent reader of John Perry Barlow&#8217;s blog and noticed that he hadn&#8217;t updated much lately. <a href=\"http:\/\/barlow.typepad.com\/barlowfriendz\/2004\/12\/a_taste_of_the_.html\">Today&#8217;s update<\/a> explains one of the reasons. His experience goes a step farther than what I blogged about at ABIA. At least you&#8217;re simply directed away from the terminal if you refuse. Thankfully, he and co-founder of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\">EFF<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toad.com\/gnu\/\">John Gilmore<\/a> are fighting this affront to the 4th amendment for the rest of us.<\/p>\n<p>As a completely random aside, I googled for &#8220;i fought the law&#8221; because I couldn&#8217;t remember the name of the artist most often associated with the song. It was, of course, Bobby Fuller. However, he didn&#8217;t write it. It was originally written and performed by The Crickets, as in &#8220;Buddy Holly and&#8221;. It was written after Holly&#8217;s death. The <a href=\"http:\/\/taco.com\/roots\/law.html\">link responsible for my musical enlightenment<\/a> appears to belong to a <a href=\"http:\/\/taco.com\/roots\/roots.html\">site about the roots of the Grateful Dead<\/a>. Those who know anything about JPB know that he was the lyricist on several Grateful Dead songs. How&#8217;s that for a little Internet daisy chain?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted a few months ago about my dismay that airport police at ABIA are now conducting random searches of vehicles driving up to the terminal. In the very same post, I linked Bruce Schneier&#8217;s site. He&#8217;s a well-known security expert who gives very good explantions of why random searches are ultimately ineffective. Fast forward <a href='https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/bobby-fuller-vs-jpb\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-2-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fonJ-1Q","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}