{"id":26366,"date":"2011-08-31T10:47:05","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T14:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26366"},"modified":"2011-08-31T11:42:07","modified_gmt":"2011-08-31T15:42:07","slug":"choi-the-drama-queen-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26366","title":{"rendered":"Choi, the drama queen, in court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Choi, our favorite pin cushion was in court yesterday. His lawyer managed to screw the pooch early and <a href=\"http:\/\/metroweekly.com\/poliglot\/2011\/08\/choi-takes-the-stand-delivers.html\">put Choi on the stand<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On the stand, Choi said the First Amendment provides for the right of people to petition the government for a redress of grievances, which also, he said, is a moral responsibility of patriotic Americans. Choi responded under questioning by Feldman that he believed his actions were a form of speech, and that the government did not have a right to censor them by arresting him. <\/p>\n<p>At times, Choi raised his voice and spoke in such a tone that he almost seemed close to shouting, especially when asked about his arrest. Under cross-examination by Assistant U.S. Attorney Angela George, he compared the various protests against \u201cDon\u2019t Ask, Don\u2019t Tell\u201d to the 1960 sit-in by students in Greensboro, N.C., at a Woolworth\u2019s department store and said he was \u201cinsulted\u201d by his prosecution on federal charges.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He claims that after his arrest and rough trade treatment, he could feel his finger for two weeks. What was he doing that he needed to feel his finger? There&#8217;s a picture of Choi outside the court house in his camouflaged uniform, but it doesn&#8217;t say when the picture was taken so I&#8217;m not sure if he showed up in court in that uniform or not, but it certainly looks like it.<\/p>\n<p>For someone who has insulted the uniform often enough over the past few years with his childish behavior, not to mention his behavior before he &#8220;outed&#8221; himself when he struck a platoon sergeant in his unit, Choi sure is in love with his uniform and the attendant accoutrements. He&#8217;s NOT an officer and he shouldn&#8217;t be addressed as such, especially since he broke the law at least twice while wearing that uniform.<\/p>\n<p>Eight years as a first lieutenant should be some kind of indicator of the character of his service. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Choi, our favorite pin cushion was in court yesterday. His lawyer managed to screw the &hellip; <a title=\"Choi, the drama queen, in court\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26366\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Choi, the drama queen, in court<\/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":[155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shitbags"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26366","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=26366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}