"You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows."
citydweller
"A spokeswoman for the D.C. Attorney General's office, which filed the misdemeanor charges — since settled — said that "some individual or organization put pressure on the Office of the Attorney General to prosecute this case," though the Secret Service investigated the case and presented it to the office for prosecution.
Attorney Mark Goldstone, who chairs the Demonstration Support Committee of the Washington, D.C., chapter of the National Lawyers Guild and represented Johnson and the five other AU students, said the timing of the arrests indeed seemed odd. "I've been doing this for 22 years, and I've represented thousands of protesters," Goldstone said.
"And I've never seen this before." A capricious wind, at that.
Whirlwind
What year is it? It seems to be getting closer and closer to 1984.
