{"id":277,"date":"2003-11-17T14:33:36","date_gmt":"2003-11-17T21:33:36","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2003-11-17T14:33:36","modified_gmt":"2003-11-17T21:33:36","slug":"re-mark-byron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/17\/re-mark-byron\/","title":{"rendered":"RE Mark Byron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heroic reader Lloyd sends <a href=http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/mld\/twincities\/news\/4682632.htm>this article about what happens to people who think the wrong thoughts aloud<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><i>SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) &#8211; A man who made a remark about a &#8220;burning Bush&#8221; during the president&#8217;s March 2001 trip to Sioux Falls was sentenced Friday to 37 months in prison.<br \/>\nRichard Humphreys of Portland, Ore., was convicted in September of threatening to kill or harm the president and said he plans to appeal. He has said the comment was a prophecy protected under his right to free speech.<\/p>\n<p>Humphreys said he got into a barroom discussion in nearby Watertown with a truck driver. A bartender who overheard the conversation realized the president was to visit Sioux Falls the next day and told police Humphreys talked about a &#8220;burning Bush&#8221; and the possibility of someone pouring a flammable liquid on Bush and lighting it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I said God might speak to the world through a burning Bush,&#8221; Humphreys testified during his trial. &#8220;I had said that before and I thought it was funny.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Not as funny as killing 50 Democrats and bystanders, apparently. Now that&#8217;s comedy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heroic reader Lloyd sends this article about what happens to people who think the wrong thoughts aloud: SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) &#8211; A man who made a remark about a &#8220;burning Bush&#8221; during the president&#8217;s March 2001 trip to Sioux Falls was sentenced Friday to 37 months in prison. Richard Humphreys of Portland, Ore., was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}