{"id":211,"date":"2002-02-22T13:28:53","date_gmt":"2002-02-22T20:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/02\/harshbarger-gets-a-pass\/"},"modified":"2002-02-22T13:28:53","modified_gmt":"2002-02-22T20:28:53","slug":"harshbarger-gets-a-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/02\/22\/harshbarger-gets-a-pass\/","title":{"rendered":"Harshbarger gets a pass"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t— Outside of Boston, the only press coverage on the Amirault injustice is this AP story (Mass. Gov. Refuses to Commute Sentence<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\nBOSTON — A mother whose child was abused at a day-care center applauded Acting Gov. Jane Swift’s decision to refuse to commute the sentence of a man who molested and raped eight children at the center.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

which presumes that the conviction was just. Nobody wants to talk about the role of Common Cause boss Scott Harshbarger<\/a> in coercing fantastic stories from the Fells Acres children.
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\nPerhaps stories of that sort would cast a bad light on the Shays-Meehan bill sailing through Congress, a bill that Common Cause wrote and the liberal media dearly loves. <\/p>\n

Only in the Blogosphere does the truth come out (OK, in the Wall St. Journal too, this time.)<\/p>\n

\nUpdate:<\/b> Naw, too paranoid. There’s no connection between a prosecutor’s using coercive and deceptive techniques to deprive individuals of their liberty and the Shays-Meehan Bill, and any appearance of same is purely coincidental. Shays-Meehan is simply designed to line the pockets of special interest groups like the NRA and, um, Common Cause. But more on that later.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

— Outside of Boston, the only press coverage on the Amirault injustice is this AP story (Mass. Gov. Refuses to Commute Sentence) BOSTON — A mother whose child was abused at a day-care center applauded Acting Gov. Jane Swift’s decision to refuse to commute the sentence of a man who molested and raped eight children … Continue reading “Harshbarger gets a pass”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-3p","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}