{"id":198689,"date":"2007-10-17T23:20:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-18T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/17\/more-politically-motivated-prosecutions-this-time-in-mississippi\/"},"modified":"2007-10-17T23:20:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-18T04:20:00","slug":"more-politically-motivated-prosecutions-this-time-in-mississippi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/17\/more-politically-motivated-prosecutions-this-time-in-mississippi\/","title":{"rendered":"More Politically Motivated Prosecutions, This Time in Mississippi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seems strikingly similar to the Siegelman case in Alabama, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/10\/11\/opinion\/11thu3.html?_r=3&amp;ref=todayspaper&amp;pagewanted=print&amp;oref=slogin&amp;oref=slogin&amp;oref=slogin\">but this time in Mississippi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>The case fits a familiar pattern. The corruption Mr. Minor was charged with was disturbingly vague, as it was with Ms. Thompson [Wisconsin where her case was overturned on appeal as &#8220;beyond thin&#8221;], whose only \u201ccrime\u201d was awarding a contract to the lowest bidder, and Mr. Siegelman, who was convicted for fairly routine political behavior.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We will be paying for the Damage inflicted by  for years to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seems strikingly similar to the Siegelman case in Alabama, but this time in Mississippi. The case fits a familiar pattern. The corruption Mr. Minor was charged with was disturbingly vague, as it was with Ms. Thompson [Wisconsin where her case was overturned on appeal as &#8220;beyond thin&#8221;], whose only \u201ccrime\u201d was awarding a contract to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,972,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-justice","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198689"}],"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=198689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}