{"id":3967,"date":"2011-09-11T04:03:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-11T04:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2011\/09\/11\/just-rubs-me-wrong-way\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:16:07","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:16:07","slug":"just-rubs-me-wrong-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=3967","title":{"rendered":"Just Rubs Me The Wrong Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:17004,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/thestar.blogs.com\\\/davidolive\\\/2011\\\/09\\\/im-already-sick-of-the-911-memorializing.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m not ethnocentric nor do I believe the United States has always been right in everything it has done pre and post-9\/11. I think the Patriot Act has become an assault on civil liberties under color of law and I think the TSA is an abomination.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.blogs.com\/davidolive\/2011\/09\/im-already-sick-of-the-911-memorializing.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Still this tripe<\/a> by a Canadian business and current affairs columnist just rubs me the wrong way. David Olive of the Toronto Star wrote a column entitled &#8220;I&#8217;m already nauseated by the 9\/11 memorializing&#8221; a few days ago which included this. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>After all, it was a panicked response to 9\/11 that conflated that terrorist attack into the nation-defining episode Osama bin Laden intended, unleashing the dogs of war on innocent people, stripping Americans of basic civil rights, degrading America&#8217;s military prowess and its public finances, and exposing the U.S. to the world as maladroit, mendacious and belligerent in diplomacy; incompetent at military occupation; inept in the gathering and interpretation of intelligence; and having only a lip-service commitment to the eradication of torture from the world. (I assumed, cynically, that the U.S. would at least bring its own WMDs to plant if it couldn&#8217;t find any of Saddam&#8217;s, in the manner of a trigger-happy LAPD equpped with &#8220;drop guns&#8221; for use when accidentally making widows in South Central LA.)<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not ethnocentric nor do I believe the United States has always been right in everything it has done&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3494],"class_list":["post-3967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bad-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7181,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3967\/revisions\/7181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}