{"id":1328,"date":"2010-01-22T05:59:30","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T10:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/wp\/?p=1328"},"modified":"2010-01-22T05:59:30","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T10:59:30","slug":"the-authoritarian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=1328","title":{"rendered":"The Authoritarian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best descriptions so far of Martha Coakley: authoritarian.<br \/>\nHer handling of both the notorious Tooky Amirault case and her comments about the lesser-known Jason R. Beatrice matter pretty much proves the point.<br \/>\nJason Beatrice&#8217;s 4 year old son was molested by a 71 year old Guatemalan janitor in a public restroom in a Bristol County Market Basket.<br \/>\nBeatrice slugged the janitor and both were arrested.<br \/>\nMartha Coakley&#8217;s office wasn&#8217;t directly involved, since the case was handled by the Bristol County DA.<br \/>\nShe did defend the father&#8217;s arrest, though, saying that her office didn&#8217;t approve of do-it-yourselfery: &#8220;We can&#8217;t have people taking the law into their own hands. The father should have waited for the police.&#8221;<br \/>\nAnd I suppose allowed the perp to continue to manhandle his son until the cops sauntered in?<br \/>\nThe janitor was released on personal recognizance and subsequently skipped the country, returning to Guatemala.  At that point, charges were dropped against Beatrice because there was no victim.<br \/>\nRead about it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enterprisenews.com\/news\/cops_and_courts\/x478787694\/Raynham-dad-cleared-of-assault-charge-officials-say-janitor-flees-country\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best descriptions so far of Martha Coakley: authoritarian. Her handling of both the notorious Tooky Amirault case and her comments about the lesser-known Jason R. Beatrice matter pretty much proves the point. Jason Beatrice&#8217;s 4 year old &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=1328\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}