{"id":249629,"date":"2024-09-08T08:18:47","date_gmt":"2024-09-08T12:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=249629"},"modified":"2024-09-08T08:18:55","modified_gmt":"2024-09-08T12:18:55","slug":"former-il-gov-rod-blagojevich-is-an-expert-on-the-danger-of-what-happens-when-government-prosecutors-like-harris-start-regulating-and-criminalizing-speech-he-spent-8-years-in-prison-after-intensivel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=249629","title":{"rendered":"Former IL Gov. Rod Blagojevich is an expert on the danger of what happens when government prosecutors like Harris start regulating and criminalizing speech. He spent 8 years in prison after intensively persecuting and then prosecuting him for his speech."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kamala Harris believes free speech is a privilege &amp; not a right &amp; the GOVERNMENT should regulate it. I\u2019m an expert on the danger of what happens when government prosecutors like Harris start regulating &amp; criminalizing speech. I spent 8 years in prison when they did it to me. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1ueFP7nthm\">pic.twitter.com\/1ueFP7nthm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Rod Blagojevich (@realBlagojevich) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realBlagojevich\/status\/1831371711427834069?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 4, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=249629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=249629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=249629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=249629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}