{"id":3938,"date":"2021-06-04T09:14:15","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T16:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=3938"},"modified":"2021-06-04T09:24:23","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T16:24:23","slug":"arrested-for-supporting-a-vigil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=3938","title":{"rendered":"Arrested for Supporting a Vigil"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>HONG KONG\u2014Police arrested two people they accused of using social media to promote a banned candlelight vigil commemorating the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, an annual event that is now seen as testing the limits of China\u2019s crackdown on dissent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Elaine Yu has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/hong-kong-police-make-arrests-on-tiananmen-square-massacre-anniversary-11622793577?reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink\">this story<\/a> in the WSJ.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This blog is about crime and not foreign affairs, so I rarely note stories like this one. However, as we debate issues of crime and constitutional limits in the United States, events like this provide a bit of perspective. The issues that we debate, such whether and under what circumstances it can be a crime to post on a social media <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.com\/crimblog\/2015\/06\/unanswered-questions-in-the-fa.html\">a threat to murder your spouse<\/a>, are light years removed from the misuse of criminal law in totalitarian dictatorships.<\/p>\n<p>The two primary purposes of government are law enforcement and national defense; everything else is secondary. On this blog we discuss law enforcement a lot, but national defense is equally important. If China ever achieves its goal to become the world&#8217;s dominant military power, all of the freedoms of our Bill of Rights will be extinguished.<\/p>\n<p>Today Hong Kong; tomorrow the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HONG KONG\u2014Police arrested two people they accused of using social media to promote a banned candlelight vigil commemorating the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, an annual event that is now seen as testing the limits of China\u2019s crackdown on dissent. 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