{"id":1276,"date":"2016-08-15T09:57:57","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T16:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/?p=1276"},"modified":"2016-08-15T09:57:57","modified_gmt":"2016-08-15T16:57:57","slug":"satire-and-critique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2016\/08\/15\/satire-and-critique\/","title":{"rendered":"Satire and Critique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the very smart libertarian blog \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/15\/jury-acquits-ohio-man-who-was-arrested-f\">Hit and Run<\/a>,\u201d presented without comment, except to note that all\u2019s well that ends well (if it does end well):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Last Thursday an Ohio jury <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/court-justice\/index.ssf\/2016\/08\/jury_acquits_parma_man_who_mad.html#incart_m-rpt-1\">acquitted<\/a>\u00a0Anthony Novak, a 27-year-old man whom Parma police <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/28\/ohio-cops-think-this-guy-should-go-to-ja\">arrested<\/a> last spring for making fun of them. After hearing one day of testimony, the jurors unanimously concluded that Novak did not \u201cdisrupt public services,\u201d a <a href=\"http:\/\/codes.ohio.gov\/orc\/2909.04\">felony<\/a> punishable by up to 18 months in prison, when he created a parody of the Parma Police Department\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/City-of-Parma-Police-Department-261731697214075\/\">Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Novak\u2019s fake Facebook page, which changed the department\u2019s slogan from \u201cWe know crime\u201d to \u201cWe no crime,\u201d included a job notice saying that anyone who passed a \u201c15 question multiple choice definition test followed by a hearing test\u201d would be \u201cbe accepted as an officer\u201d but that the department \u201cis strongly encouraging minorities to not apply.\u201d\u00a0\u2026<\/p>\n<p>When they <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/parma\/index.ssf\/2016\/03\/parma_man_charged_with_felony.html\">arrested<\/a> Novak in March, Parma police complained that his jokes were \u201cderogatory\u201d and \u201cinflammatory.\u201d\u00a0\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Novak plans to sue the police department and the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor\u2019s Office for violating his First Amendment rights. \u2026\u00a0Elizabeth Bonham, staff attorney with the ACLU of Ohio, thinks Novak has a strong case. She told <em>The [Cleveland] Plain Dealer<\/em> Novak\u2019s actions were \u201cso clearly protected by the First Amendment that the criminal proceedings shouldn\u2019t have even come this far.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><em>reposted from <a href=\"http:\/\/basil.ca\">basil.CA<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the very smart libertarian blog \u201cHit and Run,\u201d presented without comment, except to note that all\u2019s well that ends well (if it does end well): Last Thursday an Ohio jury acquitted\u00a0Anthony Novak, a 27-year-old man whom Parma police arrested &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2016\/08\/15\/satire-and-critique\/\">Continue reading <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":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[24,83,93],"class_list":["post-1276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roberts-posts","tag-conflict","tag-publishing","tag-social-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}