{"id":1086,"date":"2003-04-08T04:56:10","date_gmt":"2003-04-08T18:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/04\/08\/things-are-changing-these-days\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:40:10","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:40:10","slug":"things-are-changing-these-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/04\/08\/things-are-changing-these-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Things are changing these days"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:14904,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.rollingstone.com\\\/news\\\/newsarticle.asp?nid=17846&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20100223043332\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.rollingstone.com:80\\\/news\\\/newsarticle.asp?nid=17846&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.rollingstone.com\\\/news\\\/newsarticle.asp?nid=17846&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 08:26:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-10 05:52:37&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-10 05:52:37&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14905,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/randomwalks.com\\\/archive\\\/012277.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/randomwalks.com\\\/archive\\\/012277.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>The mother of one of the members of politically conscious band Spearhead was recently questioned by Army officers about her son&#8217;s &#8220;un-American&#8221; activities. During the interview they displayed photos of her son at peace rallys, records of his travels, a list of people he worked with at the band&#8217;s management office, and revealed that her daughter &#8212; currently serving in the military, and deployed in the Gulf &#8212; had had her CD&#8217;s confiscated.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  &#8220;She&#8217;d spoken in an interview about her daughter who has been deployed in the Gulf, and her son who is in this band Spearhead,&#8221; says Spearhead frontman Michael Franti. &#8220;They showed her a picture of her son wearing a t-shirt that said &#8216;Unfuck the world&#8217; on the front, and &#8216;Dethrone the Bushes&#8217; on the back. They told her that was an un-American statement. She said, &#8216;That&#8217;s free speech,&#8217; and they said, &#8216;Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/news\/newsarticle.asp?nid=17846\" title=\"Army questions Spearhead mom\">things are changing these days<\/a>.'&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/randomwalks.com\/archive\/012277.html\">RandomWalks<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mother of one of the members of politically conscious band Spearhead was recently questioned by Army officers about her son&#8217;s &#8216;un-American&#8217; activities. During the interview they displayed photos of her son at peace rallys, records of his travels, a list of people he worked with at the band&#8217;s management office, and revealed that her daughter &mdash; currently serving in the military, and deployed in the Gulf &mdash; had had her CD&#8217;s confiscated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-1086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=1086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}