{"id":26273,"date":"2011-08-22T15:41:51","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T19:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26273"},"modified":"2011-08-22T15:46:19","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T19:46:19","slug":"suicide-is-painless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26273","title":{"rendered":"Suicide Is Painless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, The Arab Spring&#8230; a thing of wonder with democracy replacing tyranny in many places. We should do all we can to bolster the efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Including aiding NATO in Libya? I can&#8217;t vouchsafe this source, but it does seems to agree with other reports.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2011\/08\/22\/libyan-draft-constitution-sharia-is-principal-source-of-legislation\/\" target=\"_blank\">Libyan Draft Constitution: Sharia is \u2018Principal Source of Legislation\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Under this constitution, in other words, Islam is law. That makes other phrases such as \u201cthere shall be no crime or penalty except by virtue of the law\u201d and \u201cJudges shall be independent, subject to no other authority but law and conscience\u201d a bit more ominous.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Then in Egypt:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/MiddleEast\/Article.aspx?id=234844&amp;amp;R=R3&amp;amp\" target=\"_blank\">Protesters outside\u00a0 (the Israeli)\u00a0 Cairo embassy call for envoy\u2019s ouster <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hamdeen Sabahy, a presidential candidate with the Nasserist Dignity Party, issued a statement saluting Shahat, \u201cthe public hero who burned the Zionist flag that spoiled the Egyptian air for 30 years.\u201d<br \/>\nIn an interview with Al Jazeera\u2019s recently launched Egyptian channel, Shahat said he gave a thumbs-up sign to an army officer standing behind a window on the building\u2019s eighth floor, and the officer returned the favor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Is anyone keeping score? Meanwhile American assets are currently in play over Tripoli?<\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah&#8230; our support of The Arab Spring will create many new friends&#8230; or encourage our enemies by showing us to be weak willed dolts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, The Arab Spring&#8230; a thing of wonder with democracy replacing tyranny in many places. We &hellip; <a title=\"Suicide Is Painless\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26273\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Suicide Is Painless<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geezer-alert","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26273","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\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}