{"id":4301,"date":"2009-01-11T13:01:18","date_gmt":"2009-01-11T13:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/01\/11\/even-a-little-power-corrupts-a\/"},"modified":"2009-01-11T13:01:18","modified_gmt":"2009-01-11T13:01:18","slug":"even-a-little-power-corrupts-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/11\/even-a-little-power-corrupts-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Even a little power corrupts absolutely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is a travesty when the lives of young people doing little more than trying to make a point are tossed aside in order to make the likes of federal prosecutors, FBI agents, state investigators, and the occasional mayor and governor feel like they have larger than average dick.  Which is pretty much what happened in Saint Paul in relation to the RNC last year.  Shame on them.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nEventually it had to come out in the trials for alleged crimes at the Republican National Convention(RNC) that the so called &#8220;anarchists&#8221; of the RNC Welcoming Committee were being influenced by provocateurs. Basically the worst that happened at the RNC was broken windows, slashed tires and one dropped sandbag. However, the worst alleged planned incident that was an alleged fire bombing by three people. The stories that are now coming out point to the leader of that group as Brandon Darby, paid by the FBI. Brandon had the strongest political activist background. Brandon was not a person just sitting in a meeting taking notes, he was a person teaching people in martial arts how to fight the police. Brandon was a leader! Informants don&#8217;t lead, provocateurs lead. Yet this provocateur is getting off scot-free and even being called a hero by the Powerline Republican blog. Brandon suckered two naive young people into doing acts that will put them in jail for a long time. David McKay and Bradley Crowder, from Austin, Texas are scheduled to go on trial in Minnesota on Jan. 26, and are facing a possible 30 years in jail if convicted on all counts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mnprogressiveproject.com\/diary\/2443\/provocateur-found-at-rnc\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a travesty when the lives of young people doing little more than trying to make a point are tossed aside in order to make the likes of federal prosecutors, FBI agents, state investigators, and the occasional mayor and governor feel like they have larger than average dick. Which is pretty much what happened &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/11\/even-a-little-power-corrupts-a\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Even a little power corrupts absolutely<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[33,306],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-17n","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4301"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}