{"id":17826,"date":"2016-11-06T03:25:49","date_gmt":"2016-11-06T03:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17826"},"modified":"2016-11-06T03:25:49","modified_gmt":"2016-11-06T03:25:49","slug":"this-is-how-you-treat-political-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17826","title":{"rendered":"This is how you treat political protest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Obama Defends Trump Protester at Clinton Rally\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UgMiuoQ25Yw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>President Barack Obama has given us all a lesson on how you treat political protesters.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video and you see the president of the United States &#8212; speaking at a rally on behalf of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton &#8212; defend a gentleman who was waving a Donald J. Trump banner.<\/p>\n<p>The crowd booed. It jeered the fellow. The president sought to get the audience&#8217;s attention.<\/p>\n<p>Then he said, &#8220;We live in a country that honors free speech.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The video is worth your time. It&#8217;s not long.<\/p>\n<p>Once you watch it, think for a moment how Trump has handled similar incidents in which protesters raised a ruckus at his rallies. I believe he said he wished his fans would &#8220;knock the crap&#8221; out of protesters. He also said something about paying the &#8220;legal fees&#8221; for anyone sued if they reacted violently to protests.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve got someone who understands the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>You also have someone who, well, doesn&#8217;t seem to understand the liberties the nation&#8217;s governing document guarantees to all citizens.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Barack Obama has given us all a lesson on how you treat political protesters. Watch the video and you see the president of the United States &#8212; speaking at a rally on behalf of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton &#8212; defend a gentleman who was waving a Donald J. Trump banner. The crowd &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17826\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This is how you treat political protest<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[540,1424,1738,5043],"class_list":["post-17826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-donald-trump","tag-first-amendment","tag-us-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17827,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17826\/revisions\/17827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}