{"id":26712,"date":"2011-09-28T09:44:35","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T13:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26712"},"modified":"2011-09-28T09:45:17","modified_gmt":"2011-09-28T13:45:17","slug":"26712","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26712","title":{"rendered":"VFP tries to arrest Rumsfeld"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel sends us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rawreplay\/2011\/09\/veterans-attempt-citizens-arrest-of-rumsfeld-in-boston\/\">a link to a report<\/a> that the Geezers for Sitting on Our Hands (Veterans For Peace) tried to conduct a citizens&#8217; arrest of Donald Rumsfeld in Boston last night;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kIX2UiByf58\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI went down in front and looked Donald Rumsfeld in the eye and said, \u2018I\u2019m making a citizen\u2019s arrest,\u2019\u201d protester Nate Goldschlag told WCVB-TV.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe lied us into Iraq. He lied about weapons of mass destruction. He lied about Saddam Hussein being involved in 9\/11.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Three of the protesters removed from the event were with Veterans for Peace and a fourth was a member of Code Pink. One protester was arrested outside the event for allegedly using a bullhorn to assault a police officer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Goldschlag forgot to mention that Rumsfeld was on the grassy knoll in Dallas and staged the moon landing in Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the people who wanted to hear what Rumsfeld had to say booed the four tiny-penised protesters.<\/p>\n<p>I only wish that they&#8217;d had the gumption to try that shit at the Milblog Conference when Rumsfeld spoke to us, but that was early on a Saturday morning, you know the hippies couldn&#8217;t drag themselves out for a principled stand at 8am.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the protester&#8217;s side of the discussion below the jump;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VBjj-f6vRfA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Keep in mind that most of the VFP members who we&#8217;ve profiled have never served in combat. They call themselves &#8220;Vietnam veterans&#8221; but they never set foot outside of this country &#8211; they may be Vietnam Era veterans, but few of them went to Vietnam. SO when they say they &#8220;fought for this country&#8221; like the guy in the video, you can rightfully doubt that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel sends us a link to a report that the Geezers for Sitting on Our Hands &hellip; <a title=\"VFP tries to arrest Rumsfeld\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26712\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">VFP tries to arrest Rumsfeld<\/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":[8,43,131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiwar-crowd","category-code-pink","category-i-hate-hippies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26712","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=26712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}