{"id":294292,"date":"2017-02-11T08:34:03","date_gmt":"2017-02-11T07:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/roaming-charges-big-boss-man\/"},"modified":"2017-02-11T08:34:03","modified_gmt":"2017-02-11T07:34:03","slug":"roaming-charges-big-boss-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/roaming-charges-big-boss-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Roaming Charges: Big Boss Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>You got me working boss man, a workin\u2019 around the clock,<br \/>I want a little drink of whiskey, you sure won\u2019t let me stop.<br \/>Big boss man, can\u2019t you hear me when I call?<br \/>Well, you ain\u2019t so big, you just tall, that\u2019s all.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jimmy Reed, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-61BuUZGSOY\">Big Boss Man<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>When Trump speaks these days it\u2019s usually in a strictly-controlled environment, before a self-selected (if not always compensated) crowd that bows, laughs and applauds on cue, like the\u00a0\u201clive studio audience\u201d of a sit-com.<\/p>\n<p>This week Trump cloaked himself in a pack\u00a0of gung-ho sheriffs summoned from Trump-devoted counties across the country. The mutual backslapping and banal banter between the President\u00a0and the cops took an ominous turn when Harold Eavenson, Sheriff of Rockwell County, Texas, complained to Trump that soft-on crime politicians were threatening the financial firepower of the war on drugs by trying to enact minor reforms in asset seizure laws, which allow police departments to confiscate the property of suspects in drug crimes, sell it off and keep the money to fund their own operations.<\/p>\n<p>Eavenson griped to Trump: \u00a0\u201cThere\u2019s a state senator in Texas that was talking about legislation to require conviction before we could receive that forfeiture money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you believe that?\u201d Trump responded, mugging for the cameras.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I told him that the\u00a0cartel would build a monument to him in Mexico if he could get that legislation passed,\u201d\u00a0Eavenson growled.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s hackles rose to the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2017\/02\/10\/roaming-charges-big-boss-man\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You got me working boss man, a workin\u2019 around the clock,I want a little drink of whiskey, you sure won\u2019t let me stop.Big boss man, can\u2019t you hear me when I call?Well, you ain\u2019t so big, you just tall, that\u2019s all. \u2014 Jimmy Reed, Big Boss Man When Trump speaks these days it\u2019s usually in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-294292","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}