{"id":78199,"date":"2012-07-31T03:54:23","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T09:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=78199"},"modified":"2026-08-12T15:41:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T20:41:40","slug":"thar-she-blows-a-killer-political-correctness-sighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=78199","title":{"rendered":"Thar She Blows \u2014 A Killer Political Correctness Sighting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2012\/07\/thar-she-blows-a-killer-political-correctness-sighting.php\" target=\"_blank\">Read it.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On Friday, George Will wrote a harrowing column about the Justice Department\u2019s prosecution \u2014 courtesy of the Environmental Crimes Division \u2014 of Nancy Black, a marine biologist. Black captains a whale watching ship. Finding herself under investigation for \u201charassment\u201d of a marine mammal, the alleged harassment consisting of whistling at whales to keep them near the ship for a while, she submitted a tape of the incident. Black edited the tape slightly to highlight the whistling, according to Will. The feds found no harassment, but indicted Black for editing the tape, calling this a \u201cmaterial false statement\u201d to federal investigators.<\/p>\n<p>They also charged Black with feeding killer whales. But, according to Will, what Black actually did was photograph the killer whales eating a whale they had already killed. Her only contribution to the feast was to cut a hole in one of the floating slabs of blubber and, through the hole, attach a rope to stabilize the slab while a camera on a pole recorded the whales\u2019 underwater eating.<\/p>\n<p>Will notes that the federal persecution of Black has crippled her scientific career, cost her more than $100,000 in legal fees so far, and might see her sentenced to 20 years in prison.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read it. On Friday, George Will wrote a harrowing column about the Justice Department\u2019s prosecution \u2014 courtesy of the Environmental Crimes Division \u2014 of Nancy Black, a marine biologist. Black captains a whale watching ship. Finding herself under investigation for \u201charassment\u201d of a marine mammal, the alleged harassment consisting of whistling at whales to keep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78199"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":414952,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78199\/revisions\/414952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}