{"id":181641,"date":"2016-04-26T19:14:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T00:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/04\/26\/quote-of-the-day-115\/"},"modified":"2016-04-26T19:14:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-27T00:14:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-115","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/04\/26\/quote-of-the-day-115\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;<span style=\"color: blue;\">We thought America was the best in the world,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But unfortunately this happened, and it made us [think] like American police are the same as our police in Burma.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/wonk\/wp\/2016\/04\/25\/how-oklahoma-cops-took-53000-from-a-burmese-christian-band-a-church-in-omaha-and-an-orphanage-in-thailand\/\">Eh Wah<\/a> the manager of Klo &amp; Kweh Music Team, a Burmese\/Karen band after Oklahoma cops stole $53,000 from him using asset forfeiture,<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>There is a happy ending here:&nbsp; After the <i>Washington Post<\/i> wrote a story about this (link above), the cops and the prosecutors have done the right thing, and dropped the bogus charges, and sent him his money back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We thought America was the best in the world,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But unfortunately this happened, and it made us [think] like American police are the same as our police in Burma.&#8221; \u2014Eh Wah the manager of Klo &amp; Kweh Music Team, a Burmese\/Karen band after Oklahoma cops stole $53,000 from him using asset forfeiture, There &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,969,1041],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-evil","category-law-enforcement-misconduct"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181641"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}