{"id":2235,"date":"2006-07-05T17:03:49","date_gmt":"2006-07-05T22:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/some-t-shirts-are-crimes\/"},"modified":"2006-07-05T17:03:49","modified_gmt":"2006-07-05T22:03:49","slug":"some-t-shirts-are-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/some-t-shirts-are-crimes\/","title":{"rendered":"some t-shirts are crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"

maybe not a terrorist, but a protester.<\/p>\n

today i stumble into a piece<\/a> by one mike ferner, who has apparently been booked for wearing the wrong t-shirt.<\/p>\n

“Hey, listen. I’m a veteran. This is a V.A. facility. I’m sitting here not talking to anybody, having a cup of coffee. I’m not protesting and you can’t kick me out.”<\/p>\n

“You’ll either go or we’ll arrest you,” Adkins threatened.<\/p>\n

“Well, you’ll just have to arrest me,” I said, wondering what strange land I was now living in.<\/p>\n

You know the rest. Handcuffed, led away to the facility’s security office, past people with surprised looks on their faces, read my rights, searched, and written up.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

and so, another saga begins. how ironic, that this should come to my attention just a few hours after writing about a police state…<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

update<\/strong> (2006.07.11): i’ve gotten an email from mike ferner, and, understandably, he’s buried in email at this point. i’ve sent him an “i wasn’t using my civil rights anyway” t-shirt (perhaps for his court appearance…), and offered whatever else i have available. the illinois aclu has taken the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

maybe not a terrorist, but a protester. today i stumble into a piece by one mike ferner, who has apparently been booked for wearing the wrong t-shirt. “Hey, listen. I’m a veteran. This is a V.A. facility. I’m sitting here not talking to anybody, having a cup of coffee. I’m not protesting and you can’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}