{"id":1035,"date":"2003-03-24T15:50:07","date_gmt":"2003-03-25T07:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/03\/24\/im-a-terrorist\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:41:33","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:41:33","slug":"im-a-terrorist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/03\/24\/im-a-terrorist\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#039;m a terrorist!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or rather, if I lived in Oregon and participated in a peace demonstration, I could be branded a terrorist and <em>face life imprisonment<\/em> if <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/search\/index.ssf?\/base\/news\/104851067375062.xml?oregonian?lcpl\" title=\"Inside the Capitol\">this legislation goes through<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  The harshest critics of the war protests in downtown Portland angrily called the demonstrators &#8220;terrorists&#8221; and wished aloud that the police and courts would treat them as such.<\/p>\n<p>  This morning, that idea gets put to the test at the Oregon Legislature, where a ranking senator has introduced a bill to &#8220;create the crime of terrorism&#8221; and apply it to people who intentionally cause injury while disrupting commerce or traffic.<\/p>\n<p>  If convicted, they would face imprisonment for life.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jimminy frikkin&#8217; Christmas. This kind of crap makes me sick.<\/p>\n<p>Look, if some of the protesters get out of hand and &#8220;intentionally cause injury while disrupting commerce or traffic,&#8221; then they&#8217;re criminals, and deserve to be treated as such. Arrest them, try them, and, if necessary, jail them. But they would be criminals, <em>not &#8216;terrorists&#8217;<\/em>, and certainly not deserving of life imprisonment!<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thismodernworld.com\/weblog\/mtarchives\/week_2003_03_23.html#000358\" title=\"Signs of the times\">Tom Tomorrow<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or rather, if I lived in Oregon and participated in a peace demonstration, I could be branded a terrorist and <em>face life imprisonment<\/em> if this legislation goes through.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2042],"tags":[14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}