{"id":13014,"date":"2013-09-19T13:45:19","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T18:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=13014"},"modified":"2013-09-19T13:45:19","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T18:45:19","slug":"political-persecution-yes-political-prosecution-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/19\/political-persecution-yes-political-prosecution-no\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Persecution Yes, Political Prosecution No"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ky3.com\/news\/sns-ap-mo--presidential-protesters-20130918,0,2850425.story\" target=\"_blank\">No criminal charges for Obama protesters arrested in St. Charles for distracting I-70 drivers<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A pair of St. Charles County men won&#8217;t face criminal charges after their recent arrests during an anti-Obama protest on an Interstate 70 highway overpass.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">. . . .<\/p>\n<p>The men were arrested in August for failing to obey orders by Missouri State Highway Patrol troopers as the pair gathered above I-70 to protest the president.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Would they have been arrested if the signs had said, &#8220;Happy Birthday Mindy!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Of course not.<\/p>\n<p>But the goal was served, prosecution or not.  They were removed from the bridge and prevented from sharing their message.  And perhaps they&#8217;ll think better of peacefully assembling and speaking their minds in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No criminal charges for Obama protesters arrested in St. Charles for distracting I-70 drivers: A pair of St. Charles County men won&#8217;t face criminal charges after their recent arrests during an anti-Obama protest on an Interstate 70 highway overpass. . . . . The men were arrested in August for failing to obey orders by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13014"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13016,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13014\/revisions\/13016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}