{"id":2164,"date":"2022-03-25T16:07:08","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T21:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/18.217.136.120\/?p=2164"},"modified":"2025-08-30T22:42:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T03:42:10","slug":"my-letter-of-resignation-from-dissent-magazines-editorial-board-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jimsleeper.com\/?p=2164","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Plus ca change? In 1970, I knocked the Secret Service for tracking protestors:"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was a bit more than a year out of college and turning 23 years old when I reacted publicly as follows to the U.S. Secret Service&#8217;s identifying and tracking protesters against the Vietnam War and other government policies. A decent liberal education and a viable civic-republican culture helped me and others to do it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Click this link and enlarge its illuminated section (&#8220;Letters to the Editor&#8221;) to read the first letter, &#8220;Secret Service Files.&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/timesmachine.nytimes.com\/timesmachine\/1970\/07\/03\/78153911.html?pageNumber=24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TimesMachine: July 3, 1970 &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a>&nbsp; Please share it around, now more than ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was a bit more than a year out of college and turning 23 years old when I reacted publicly as follows to the U.S. Secret Service&#8217;s identifying and tracking protesters against the Vietnam War and other government policies. A decent liberal education and a viable civic-republican culture helped me and others to do it. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimsleeper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimsleeper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimsleeper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimsleeper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimsleeper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2164"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimsleeper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5387,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimsleeper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164\/revisions\/5387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimsleeper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimsleeper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimsleeper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}