{"id":17108,"date":"2014-05-07T21:14:05","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T01:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=17108"},"modified":"2014-05-07T21:19:11","modified_gmt":"2014-05-08T01:19:11","slug":"guilty-verdict-for-occupy-activist-an-attack-on-dissent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2014\/05\/07\/guilty-verdict-for-occupy-activist-an-attack-on-dissent\/","title":{"rendered":"Guilty Verdict For Occupy Activist An &#8220;Attack On Dissent&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Real News Network<\/em> has the interview <a href=\"http:\/\/therealnews.com\/t2\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=31&#038;Itemid=74&#038;jumival=11828\" title=\"The Real News Network interview\" target=\"_blank\">Guilty Verdict For Occupy Activist An &#8220;Attack On Dissent&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAttorney Kevin Zeese discusses how the judge hearing Cecily McMillan&#8217;s case did not allow the defense to show images which would have proven that the activist was reacting to getting her breast grabbed.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/BKxir_u2T_0?rel=0\" style=\"border:thick ridge #009900\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Compare this story to my previous post <a href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2014\/05\/07\/no-evidence-justice-dept-will-prosecute-u-s-banks-responsible-for-financial-crisis\/\" title=\"Previous post\" target=\"_blank\">No Evidence Justice Dept. Will Prosecute U.S. Banks Responsible for Financial Crisis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It is worth noting that Cecily McMillan was protesting that U.S. banks responsible for the financial crisis were not being prosecuted.  So as is typical with much of our government&#8217;s behavior in such cases, they responded &#8220;So you want prosecutions, do you?  We&#8217;ll give you your stinkin&#8217; prosecutions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what Attorney Kevin Zeese is complaining about.  It is clear that whether you are rich or poor, you don&#8217;t get to present a defense in front of certain judges.  Of course the rich don&#8217;t get to present their defense because the justice system is afraid to prosecute them.  The poor get prosecuted for what may not be crimes, but cannot present a defense.  See, same treatment, no defense.<\/p>\n<link rel=\"stylesheet\" id=\"font-awesome-css\" href=\"http:\/\/netdna.bootstrapcdn.com\/font-awesome\/4.0.3\/css\/font-awesome.min.css?ver=4.0.3\" type=\"text\/css\" media=\"all\"\/>\n<p><i style=\"color: red\" class=\"fa fa-flag fa-5x\"><\/i> Warning, the above paragraph may contain some sarcasm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Real News Network has the interview Guilty Verdict For Occupy Activist An &#8220;Attack On Dissent&#8221;. Attorney Kevin Zeese discusses how the judge hearing Cecily McMillan&#8217;s case did not allow the defense to show images which would have proven that the activist was reacting to getting her breast grabbed. Compare this story to my previous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17108","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17108"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17111,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17108\/revisions\/17111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}