{"id":18062,"date":"2010-03-18T14:43:52","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T19:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=18062"},"modified":"2010-12-23T17:44:59","modified_gmt":"2010-12-23T21:44:59","slug":"yeah-this-helps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=18062","title":{"rendered":"Yeah, this helps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/choi_wh1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18063\" title=\"choi_wh1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/choi_wh1.jpg\" alt=\"choi_wh1\" width=\"390\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/choi_wh1.jpg 390w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/choi_wh1-300x219.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vetvoice.com\/showDiary.do?diaryId=2733\">Vote Vet&#8217;s poster child<\/a> for the repeal of Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell, Dan Choi decided he could change military policy and the UCMJ today by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.advocate.com\/News\/Daily_News\/2010\/03\/18\/Dan_Choi_Protests_in_Front_of_WH\/\">chaining himself to the White House fence<\/a>; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In an act of civil disobedience, Lt. Dan Choi and Jim Pietrangelo have been arrested at the White House gates on Thursday while protesting the military&#8217;s &#8220;don&#8217;t ask, don&#8217;t tell&#8221; policy.<\/p>\n<p>Following a Human Rights Campaign rally for DADT repeal in Washington earlier today, Choi and Pietrangelo led about 100 protesters to the White House, where the two then proceeded to handcuff themselves to the gates. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, Choi has been allowed to serve in his National Guard unit despite the fact that he&#8217;s violated the DADT policy countless times (including coming out on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kthMCIqc72A\">Rachel Maddow Show<\/a> last year). The final decision on how much longer he&#8217;ll remain in the service is pending. So now I think the military has a couple of reasons to boot his ass without DADT.<\/p>\n<p>Cue the Rosa Parks comparisons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vote Vet&#8217;s poster child for the repeal of Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell, Dan Choi decided he &hellip; <a title=\"Yeah, this helps\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=18062\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yeah, this helps<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,87,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-general-whackos","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}