{"id":29059,"date":"2012-03-10T14:23:54","date_gmt":"2012-03-10T18:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29059"},"modified":"2012-08-10T00:11:42","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T04:11:42","slug":"car-parking-is-not-free-speech-either","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29059","title":{"rendered":"Car parking is not free speech either"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jason sends us a link from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idahostatesman.com\/2012\/03\/09\/2028338\/ispremove-two-cars-from-occupy.html\">Idaho Statesman<\/a> which tells the story of an Air Force veteran who decided to test the judicial decision from last month which declared that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28898\">Occupy Boise&#8217;s tents were free speech<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Ike Sweesy parked his Corvette near the Occupy encampment to see if he&#8217;d get the benefit of the court decision. The police, apparently disagreed;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cPart of our American heritage means that freedom can cost you,\u201d said Sweesy [in regards to his $125 towing fee levy]. \u201cWe are making a statement: &#8230; A tent is not a statement of protest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sweesy, who\u2019s retired from the Air Force, got the idea when he heard Nampa resident Ronalee Linsenmann on a radio show talking about why she\u2019d pulled her bumper-sticker-covered Geo Metro onto the grass near the Occupy Boise tents.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He&#8217;s right, though. his car is no more free speech than the filthy hippies&#8217; tents. I hope the judge feels ashamed if only for a minute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason sends us a link from the Idaho Statesman which tells the story of an Air &hellip; <a title=\"Car parking is not free speech either\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29059\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Car parking is not free speech either<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,190],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-i-hate-hippies","category-occupy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}