{"id":792,"date":"2004-05-16T22:02:05","date_gmt":"2004-05-17T03:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/heaving-bosoms-against-greenpeace\/"},"modified":"2004-05-16T22:02:05","modified_gmt":"2004-05-17T03:02:05","slug":"heaving-bosoms-against-greenpeace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/heaving-bosoms-against-greenpeace\/","title":{"rendered":"heaving bosoms against greenpeace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>in an unsurprising move for an administration that believes that <a href=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/creative_prosecution.html\">creative prosecution<\/a> is the way to go,  and stretching laws a little further than they can go is perfectly legitimate in &#8220;these troubled times, &#8221; the us department of justice, under the creative leadership of attorney general john ashcroft is prosecuting greenpeace  tomorrow for &#8220;sailor mongering.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>it&#8217;s not really news &#8211; al gore mentioned it in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moveon.org\/gore\/speech.html\" class=\"broken_link\">speech<\/a> back in november, but it is going forward in a few hours, and it&#8217;s a chilling example of this administrations apparent belief that political criticism is grounds for criminal prosecution.<\/p>\n<p>of course, once greenpeace is officially a criminal organization, that opens up a whole new set of approaches to shutting down their efforts.  it&#8217;s just a couple steps away from getting them tagged as a terrorist organization, and we all know that anyone who supports, directly or indirectly, a terrorist organization is a terrorist.<\/p>\n<p>are those offshore camps ready for all the greenpeace contributors?<\/p>\n<p>find out more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenpeaceusa.org\/bin\/view.fpl\/16961.html\" class=\"broken_link\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>oh, you may wonder about the title&#8230; it&#8217;s from a quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"sourcequote\">Maria Kayanan, ACLU<\/div>\n<p>It harkens to the Barbary Coast and wenches with heaving bosoms and kegs of rum.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>update<\/strong> (2004.05.19):  the judge <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/wire\/US\/ap20040519_1836.html\" class=\"broken_link\">tossed<\/a> this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>in an unsurprising move for an administration that believes that creative prosecution is the way to go, and stretching laws a little further than they can go is perfectly legitimate in &#8220;these troubled times, &#8221; the us department of justice, under the creative leadership of attorney general john ashcroft is prosecuting greenpeace tomorrow for &#8220;sailor [&hellip;]<\/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\/792"}],"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=792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}