{"id":106,"date":"2006-09-16T23:00:34","date_gmt":"2006-09-17T07:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.irasnyder.com\/wordpress\/?p=106"},"modified":"2006-09-16T23:00:34","modified_gmt":"2006-09-17T07:00:34","slug":"coincidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irasnyder.com\/wordpress\/?p=106","title":{"rendered":"Coincidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished watching <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/V_for_vendetta\">V for Vendetta<\/a>, which is a wonderful film. If you haven&#8217;t seen it, I heartily recommend it. Coincidentally, one of the first things I see <a href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/politics\/Geneva_conventions_vague_says_Bush\">is this<\/a>, on Digg:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe US president, George Bush, today dismissed the Geneva conventions on the laws of war as &#8220;vague&#8221; and called on Congress to back controversial new rules on the handling of terror suspects.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kind of interesting, given the subject matter of the movie. I know it&#8217;s not directly related, but it&#8217;s in the same vein, so I thought I&#8217;d comment.<\/p>\n<p>I do see our country heading down a path where something similar to the world of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nineteen_Eighty-Four\">1984 the novel<\/a>. Which scares the shit out of me. I just hope other people see it coming as well, and will stand up when the time is right.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not so sure about that, though. I recently bought <a href=\"http:\/\/itsnotallbad.com\/iamnotaterrorist\/\">a shirt<\/a> which has the Arabic text that translates to &#8220;I am not a terrorist&#8221; on it. My brother thinks I&#8217;m incredibly stupid to want to wear a shirt with Arabic text on it to the airport, while I think it is an extremely important way that I can help protect free speech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished watching V for Vendetta, which is a wonderful film. If you haven&#8217;t seen it, I heartily recommend it. Coincidentally, one of the first things I see is this, on Digg: The US president, George Bush, today dismissed the Geneva conventions on the laws of war as &#8220;vague&#8221; and called on Congress to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irasnyder.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irasnyder.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irasnyder.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irasnyder.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irasnyder.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.irasnyder.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irasnyder.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irasnyder.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irasnyder.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}