{"id":5252,"date":"2013-07-13T09:25:25","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T15:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5252"},"modified":"2013-07-13T09:25:25","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T15:25:25","slug":"united-stasi-of-america-light-artist-wanted-by-berlin-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5252","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;United Stasi of America&#8217; Light Artist Wanted by Berlin Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/m.spiegel.de\/international\/germany\/a-910818.html#spRedirectedFrom=www&#038;referrrer=http:\/\/t.co\/gt7EjhEWxe\">By Charles Hawley<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Berlin police believe that this message, projected onto the wall of the US Embassy in Berlin on Sunday night, could be a violation of laws against insulting representatives of foreign states.<\/p>\n<p>Berlin police are investigating a light artist for projecting the phrase &#8220;United Stasi of America&#8221; onto the the US Embassy in Berlin. The phrase refers to the former East German secret police and was meant as a protest against American spying. But can the artist really be prosecuted?<\/p>\n<p>It was meant to be a publicity stunt &#8212; a political prank aimed at voicing displeasure over vast US Internet surveillance and spying activities. But Oliver Bienkowski, the light artist who projected the words &#8220;United Stasi of America&#8221; onto the US Embassy late Sunday night now finds himself in hot water with the Berlin police after authorities opened an investigation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Charles Hawley: Berlin police believe that this message, projected onto the wall of the US Embassy in Berlin on Sunday night, could be a violation of laws against insulting representatives of foreign states. Berlin police are investigating a light artist for projecting the phrase &#8220;United Stasi of America&#8221; onto the the US Embassy in [&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\/5252"}],"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=5252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}