{"id":182603,"date":"2015-07-28T18:45:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T23:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/07\/28\/eric-arthur-blair-has-to-be-spinning-in-his-grave-over-this\/"},"modified":"2015-07-28T18:45:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T23:45:00","slug":"eric-arthur-blair-has-to-be-spinning-in-his-grave-over-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/07\/28\/eric-arthur-blair-has-to-be-spinning-in-his-grave-over-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Arthur Blair Has to Be Spinning in His Grave over This\u2026\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 200px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/XjqEHGB.jpg\" rel=\"lytebox\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" bordercolor=\"white\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/XjqEHGB.jpg\" width=\"190\" \/><\/a><br \/><i>Eric Arthur Blair <br \/>Aka George Orwell<\/i><\/div>\n<p>It appears that while the Department of Justice saw no need to call Dylan Roof, who targeted a black church with the explicit goal of keeping black people down, is not a terrorist, while <a href=\"https:\/\/firstlook.org\/theintercept\/2015\/07\/28\/dylan-roof-terrorist-animal-rights-activists-free-minks\/\">animal rights activists who leg minks out of cages are terrorists<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The FBI on Friday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/sandiego\/press-releases\/2015\/animal-rights-activists-accused-of-going-on-cross-country-spree-targeting-fur-industry\">announced<\/a>  the arrests in Oakland of two animal rights activists, Joseph  Buddenberg and Nicole Kissane, and accused the pair of engaging in  \u201cdomestic terrorism.\u201d This comes less than a month after the FBI  director <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/fbi-director-says-charleston-shooting-not-terrorism\/\">said<\/a>  he does not consider Charleston Church murderer Dylann Roof  a \u201cterrorist.\u201d The activists\u2019 alleged crimes: \u201cThey released thousands  of minks from farms around the country and vandalized various  properties.\u201d That\u2019s it. Now they\u2019re being prosecuted and explicitly  vilified as \u201cterrorists,\u201d facing 10-year prison terms.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To call this &#8220;Orwellian&#8221; is an understatement, and I am coming from the perspective of being hostile to most of the goals of the PETA and its ilk.<\/p>\n<p>These folks, are assholes, and they should be charged, but charging them with terrorism is nucking futs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Arthur Blair Aka George Orwell It appears that while the Department of Justice saw no need to call Dylan Roof, who targeted a black church with the explicit goal of keeping black people down, is not a terrorist, while animal rights activists who leg minks out of cages are terrorists: The FBI on Friday &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1029,970,969,972,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","category-corruption","category-evil","category-justice","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182603"}],"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=182603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}