{"id":180249,"date":"2017-06-14T20:57:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T01:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/06\/14\/whiskey-tango-foxtrot-8\/"},"modified":"2017-06-14T20:57:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T01:57:00","slug":"whiskey-tango-foxtrot-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/06\/14\/whiskey-tango-foxtrot-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 330px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/kgtHzFh.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/kgtHzFh.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><br \/><i>Troof!<\/i><\/p>\n<blockquote data-lang=\"en\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Violence of any kind is unacceptable in our society and I condemn this action in the strongest possible terms. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hyfmmpgXML\">pic.twitter.com\/hyfmmpgXML<\/a><\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenSanders\/status\/875023251944202240\">June 14, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><i>Right thing to say<\/i><\/div>\n<p>In a political season characterized by death threats against candidates, (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/story\/news\/2017\/06\/03\/kim-weaver-withdraws-her-candidacy-iowas-4th-district-race-congress\/368389001\/\">here<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.syracuse.com\/state\/index.ssf\/2017\/04\/binghamton_mayoral_candidate_pulls_out_of_race_following_series_of_threats.html\">here<\/a>) it is lamentable, but foreseeable that someone would take those threats to the next level.<\/p>\n<p>Today, in the 154<br \/>sup<\/p>\n<p>mass shooting in the United States so far this year, a man opened fire at a baseball practice (there is an annual charity game) for Congressional Republicans: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">A man angry with President Trump unleashed a barrage of gunfire Wednesday morning at Republican members of Congress as they held a baseball practice at a park in Alexandria, wounding House Majority Whip Steve Scalise and four others in a frenzied scene that included a long gun battle with police.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The gunman, James T. Hodgkinson, a 66-year-old unemployed home inspector from southern Illinois, died after the shootout. Two Capitol Police officers assigned to Scalise\u2019s security detail were wounded.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Hodgkinson, who had been living in his van in Alexandria for the past few months, had posted anti-Trump rhetoric on his Facebook page and had written letters to his hometown newspaper blaming Republicans for what he considered an agenda favoring the wealthy.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is the culture that we have created, and this does not bode well for the future of our society.<\/p>\n<p>As an aside the gunman volunteered for the Sanders Campaign in 2015, and Sanders immediately condemned his actions, and he was defended by Sarah Palin (Breitbart, so no link).<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Troof! Violence of any kind is unacceptable in our society and I condemn this action in the strongest possible terms. pic.twitter.com\/hyfmmpgXML \u2014 Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) June 14, 2017 Right thing to say In a political season characterized by death threats against candidates, (here &amp; here) it is lamentable, but foreseeable that someone would take those &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[435,374,582],"class_list":["post-180249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-crimes","tag-politics","tag-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}