{"id":26578,"date":"2011-09-20T07:30:18","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T11:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26578"},"modified":"2011-09-20T07:30:18","modified_gmt":"2011-09-20T11:30:18","slug":"dod-certifies-dadt-repeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26578","title":{"rendered":"DOD certifies DADT repeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tamn and Jerry920 want you guys to know that the Pentagon has certified that the military is ready for the repeal of the decades-old Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell policy. Jerry wonders where Dan Choi is today. Well, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalpost.com\/dispatch\/news\/war\/military\/110919\/after-don%E2%80%99t-ask-don%E2%80%99t-tell-the-ongoing-battle\">Global Post<\/a>, Choi is hoping to go to prison;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI want the government to force me to go to jail,\u201d Choi insists. \u201cI\u2019m not going to let them take the easy way.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, I hope he punches someone in the chest in prison. I hope he gets jail time, too, then he won&#8217;t be able to enlist in the Army. lord knows there are enough drama queens in the military these days, they don&#8217;t need Dan Choi chaining himself to some military front gate to protest pulling guard duty over the holiday.<\/p>\n<p>And, oh, Choi is now anti-war, according to that article in the Global Post, so the IVAW can look forward to him joining them soon, I suppose.<\/p>\n<p>But, anyway, where are the thousands of gays who wanted to serve in the military but couldn&#8217;t because of their conscience? They should be lined up around the block at your local recruiters&#8217; office. Can you see them?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/end-of-dadt-means-decision-time-for-gay-troops-1.153688\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a> Leo Shane laments that it&#8217;s decision for gays and lesbians to decide whether they want to come out of the closet or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tamn and Jerry920 want you guys to know that the Pentagon has certified that the military &hellip; <a title=\"DOD certifies DADT repeal\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26578\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DOD certifies DADT repeal<\/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":[8,177,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiwar-crowd","category-dumbass-bullshit","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26578","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=26578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}