{"id":5672,"date":"2009-06-22T21:04:57","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T21:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/06\/22\/stop-violence-masquerading-as\/"},"modified":"2009-06-22T21:04:57","modified_gmt":"2009-06-22T21:04:57","slug":"stop-violence-masquerading-as","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/22\/stop-violence-masquerading-as\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop violence masquerading as political activism"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Citing recent killings in Arkansas, Kansas and the nation&#8217;s capital, Attorney General Eric Holder on Tuesday said new hate crimes law were needed to stop what he called &#8220;violence masquerading as political activism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The attorney general&#8217;s call for Congress to act came as a civil rights coalition said there has been a surge in white supremacist activity since the election of the first African-American president and the economic downturn.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Over the last several weeks, we have witnessed brazen acts of violence committed in places that many would have considered unthinkable,&#8221; Holder told the Washington Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.365gay.com\/news\/ag-holder-urges-new-hate-crimes-law\/\">source<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Is this legislating thinking?  Or is it legislating stupidity?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citing recent killings in Arkansas, Kansas and the nation&#8217;s capital, Attorney General Eric Holder on Tuesday said new hate crimes law were needed to stop what he called &#8220;violence masquerading as political activism.&#8221; The attorney general&#8217;s call for Congress to act came as a civil rights coalition said there has been a surge in white &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/22\/stop-violence-masquerading-as\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stop violence masquerading as political activism<\/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":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1tu","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5672"}],"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=5672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}