{"id":1965959,"date":"2023-07-06T17:49:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T21:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ben-jerrys-co-founder-ben-cohen-burns-bill-of-rights-outside-department-of-justice\/"},"modified":"2023-07-06T17:49:25","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T21:49:25","slug":"ben-jerrys-co-founder-ben-cohen-burns-bill-of-rights-outside-department-of-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ben-jerrys-co-founder-ben-cohen-burns-bill-of-rights-outside-department-of-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben &#038; Jerry&#8217;s, protests by burning Bill of Rights outside Department of Justice."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fben-jerrys-co-founder-ben-cohen-burns-bill-of-rights-outside-department-of-justice%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1965959&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Ben &#038; Jerry&#8217;s Co-Founder Sets Fire to Replica of Bill of Rights in Protest<\/h2>\n<p>Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben &#038; Jerry&#8217;s, made a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/meme-lords-just-figured-out-how-to-take-back-the-billions-wall-street-made-profiting-off-lockdowns-the-washington-standard\/\" title=\"Meme Lords Just Figured Out How To Take Back The Billions Wall Street Made Profiting Off Lockdowns\">powerful statement<\/a> on Thursday outside the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. In a bold act of protest, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kenosha-wis-under-emergency-declaration-ahead-of-decision-in-jacob-blake-case\/\" title=\"Kenosha, Wis. under emergency declaration ahead of decision in Jacob Blake case\">set fire<\/a> to a replica of the Bill of Rights.<\/p>\n<p>Cohen, known for his business acumen, activism, and philanthropy, led the demonstration to condemn the treatment of Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, and to underscore the vital importance of a free press.<\/p>\n<h3>A Stand for the First Amendment<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;Little did we know that our greatest struggle would be when we tried to bring the First Amendment to the United States,&#8221; expressed Cohen, who stepped down as CEO of Ben &#038; Jerry&#8217;s in 1996.<\/p>\n<p>Cohen firmly believes that Assange, as a publisher, only shared the truth. &#8220;Anything he ever published was the truth,&#8221; he asserted. &#8220;And, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ben-jerrys-co-founder-ben-cohen-burns-bill-of-rights-outside-department-of-justice\/\" title=\"Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben &#038; Jerry's, protests by burning Bill of Rights outside Department of Justice.\">truth revealed war crimes<\/a> and government lies to the U.S. Congress and to the people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While former President Barack Obama refrained from prosecuting Assange, citing the freedom of the press, Cohen criticized President Trump for breaking with precedent and indicting a publisher for publishing the truth.<\/p>\n<h3>A Call for Change<\/h3>\n<p>President Joe Biden has publicly stated that &#8220;journalism is not a crime,&#8221; according to Cohen. However, Assange remains in custody in the United Kingdom as the U.S. continues its extradition efforts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Right now, unless <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/while-millions-not-in-school-biden-tells-girl-that-kids-are-safest-group-of-people-in-the-world\/\" title=\"While Millions Not In School, Biden Tells Girl That Kids Are \u2018Safest Group Of People In The World\u2019\">things change<\/a>, and unless we change them, freedom of the press is going up in smoke,&#8221; warned Cohen as he ignited the replica of the Bill of Rights, which bore the words &#8220;Freedom of the Press.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m gonna light this Bill of Rights in four places,&#8221; he declared passionately. &#8220;One for each year that Assange has been held in solitary confinement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben &amp; Jerry&#8217;s, ignited a replica of the Bill of Rights at the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. He protested the treatment of Julian Assange and highlighted the significance of a free press. Cohen, a businessman, activist, and philanthropist, aimed to emphasize these concerns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1965960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1965959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1965959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1965960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1965959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1965959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1965959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}