{"id":522652,"date":"2010-04-09T13:42:33","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T17:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.75741"},"modified":"2010-04-09T14:07:46","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T18:07:46","slug":"another-view-of-the-gadsden-flag-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/522652","title":{"rendered":"Another view of the Gadsden Flag controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Noted criminal defense lawyer and civil rights advocate Norm Pattis weighs in on the brouhaha on his blog today.<\/p>\n<p>He thinks Capitol police were wrong to reverse an earlier decision granting Tea Party activists the right to fly the flag above the Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Symbols are part and parcel of political speech,&#8221; Pattis write. &#8220;A group that wants to shake its fist in the very face of a government it believes to be losing touch with the people it represents should be free to fly the flag. But in this case, new tyrants say no.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire post <a href=\"http:\/\/normpattis.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/dont-tread-on-me-except-in-connecticut.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noted criminal defense lawyer and civil rights advocate Norm Pattis weighs in on the brouhaha on his blog today. He thinks Capitol police were wrong to reverse an earlier decision granting Tea Party activists the right to fly the flag above the Capitol. &#8220;Symbols are part and parcel of political speech,&#8221; Pattis write. &#8220;A group [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4000,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-522652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4000"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}