{"id":76180,"date":"2011-12-20T13:27:57","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T18:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/76180\/goodbye-blue-sky\/"},"modified":"2011-12-20T13:27:57","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T18:27:57","slug":"goodbye-blue-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/76180\/goodbye-blue-sky\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye Blue Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"

So now they’re trying to vilify Bradley Manning by saying he’s gay and has “gender issues”, and that it drove him to leak information to Wikileaks as a way of lashing out against Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.<\/font><\/p>\n

It’s a smear campaign meant to vilify both whistleblowers and the gay community as a whole.<\/font><\/p>\n


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I guess it’s only fitting that the Bradley Manning case would be underway at a time when our government is seeking to set indefinite detention of American citizens into legal bedrock. \u00a0As if indefinite detention of ANY human being isn’t bad enough.<\/font><\/p>\n

It is a sad day, America. \u00a0As we sit and watch the very fabric of our liberties fade away into the ether, I feel like a blind man who is seeing the bars of his cage for the very first time.<\/font><\/p>\n

In the zoo, they build the enclosures to closely resemble an animal’s natural habitat. <\/font>What has been seen cannot be unseen. \u00a0What’s a monkey to do when the red, white, and blue backdrop fades away into grey bars and concrete walls?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Turning pages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1428],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}