{"id":8417,"date":"2011-03-26T13:07:42","date_gmt":"2011-03-26T20:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=8417"},"modified":"2011-03-26T14:08:24","modified_gmt":"2011-03-26T21:08:24","slug":"in-memoriam-leonard-weinglass-1933-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=8417","title":{"rendered":"In Memoriam: Leonard Weinglass, 1933 &#8211; 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Images\/LeonardWeinglass.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\"><em>Guest blogged by Ernest A. Canning<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The fact that the U.S. government could&#8230;seek to put away people because of their political dissent was a real major eye-opener to me.&#8221; &#8211; Leonard Weinglass, <a href=\"http:\/\/findarticles.com\/p\/articles\/mi_m1295\/is_n5_v60\/ai_18225343\/?tag=content;col1\">commenting<\/a> on the 1968 Chicago Seven trial.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The cause of civil liberties has lost a legal champion.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout a long and distinguished legal career, during which he defended, among others, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chicago_Seven\">Chicago 7<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Daniel_Ellsberg\">Daniel Ellsberg<\/a> in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gwu.edu\/~nsarchiv\/NSAEBB\/NSAEBB48\/\">Pentagon Papers Case<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mumia_Abu-Jamal\">Mumia Abu-Jamal<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Angela_Davi\">Angela Davis<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Julian_Assange\">Julian Assange<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freethefive.org\/\">the Cuban Five<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leonard_Weinglass\">Leonard Weinglass<\/a> served as a vital buffer between an increasingly oppressive, corporate security state and those who would dare to challenge it.<\/p>\n<p>He will be sorely missed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest blogged by Ernest A. Canning &#8220;The fact that the U.S. government could&#8230;seek to put away people because of their political dissent was a real major eye-opener to me.&#8221; &#8211; Leonard Weinglass, commenting on the 1968 Chicago Seven trial. The cause of civil liberties has lost a legal champion. Throughout a long and distinguished legal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[197,126],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-8417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-memoriam","category-rights-and-freedoms","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8417"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=8417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}