Hoo boy!
Once more I am indebted to James Taranto from OpinionJournal.com's Best of the Web. Taranto draws attention to a Reuters news report that claims that the U.S. government is persecuting Greenpeace for political reasons (as opposed to the criminal actions they are carrying out)
Reuters states the following:
>>>As significant as the prosecution itself, are the implications, free speech campaigners say.
Not once since the Boston Tea Party have U.S. authorities criminally prosecuted a group for political expression.<<<
...which is ludicrous. As Taranto points out "The Boston Tea Party was held on Dec. 16, 1773--2 1/2 years before the U.S. existed."
Nice bit of reporting by Reuters!
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