{"id":4823,"date":"2012-09-27T07:26:06","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T13:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4823"},"modified":"2012-09-27T07:26:06","modified_gmt":"2012-09-27T13:26:06","slug":"disharmonic-convergence-of-free-speech-free-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4823","title":{"rendered":"Disharmonic Convergence of Free Speech Free Fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2012\/09\/27\/1136980\/-Disharmonic-Convergence-of-Free-Speech-Free-Fall\">Jesselyn Raddack<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The past 72 hours has held one of the strangest disharmonic convergence of free speech events I have ever seen.<\/p>\n<p>(1) On Tuesday, President Obama flourished his pretty rhetoric on free speech to the United Nations (UN):<Blockquote>Those in power have to resist the temptation to crack down on dissidents.<\/block quote>(2) A day later, the Sydney Morning Herald published U.S. Air Force documents classifying Wikileaks and its founder Julian Assange as &#8220;enemies of the state,&#8221; an action in sharp contrast to Obama&#8217;s rhetoric about the importance of protecting dissent in a democracy.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesselyn Raddack: The past 72 hours has held one of the strangest disharmonic convergence of free speech events I have ever seen. (1) On Tuesday, President Obama flourished his pretty rhetoric on free speech to the United Nations (UN):Those in power have to resist the temptation to crack down on dissidents.(2) A day later, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4823"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}