{"id":180578,"date":"2017-03-10T18:42:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T23:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/03\/10\/human-sacrifice-dogs-and-cats-living-together-mass-hysteria-3\/"},"modified":"2017-03-10T18:42:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T23:42:00","slug":"human-sacrifice-dogs-and-cats-living-together-mass-hysteria-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/03\/10\/human-sacrifice-dogs-and-cats-living-together-mass-hysteria-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Human Sacrifice, Dogs and Cats Living Together&#8230; Mass Hysteria!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that we are now having <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/news\/nation-world\/national\/article137016498.html\">Pennsylvania Mennonites protesting Donald Trump policies<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Mary Beth Martin and Lindsey Martin Corbo each held one side of the large cardboard poster, the mother and her adult daughter eager to deliver a personal if unconventional message to their congressman, Republican Rep. Lloyd Smucker.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cHey Smucker,\u201d said the sign, written in red, green, and blue marker. \u201c300 years ago our Mennonite family took sanctuary in PA, just like yours did.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cLancaster values immigrants.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The anger might have been directed at Smucker, but Martin and Corbo were really there \u2013 like 100 others \u2013 because of President Donald Trump.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The two women were among a hundred newly engaged activists assembled in Republican-heavy Lancaster County \u2013 an area that went to Trump in November by 57 percent \u2013 braving toe-freezing temperatures to protest Trump and the lawmaker, who was 200 yards away at a chamber of commerce breakfast.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">That Martin and Corbo were protesters was \u2013 by their own admission \u2013 a remarkable development. Both are members of the Mennonite Church, a religion that encourages its members to stay away from politics just as it asks them to shun the wider culture.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is like a half step away from the <b><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">Amish<\/span><\/b> engaging in civil disobedience, and I ain&#8217;t talking about <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rumspringa\">Rumspringa<\/a> here.<\/p>\n<p>H\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/news-politics\/politics\/news\/a53717\/mennonites-protest-trump\/\">Charlie Pierce<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that we are now having Pennsylvania Mennonites protesting Donald Trump policies: Mary Beth Martin and Lindsey Martin Corbo each held one side of the large cardboard poster, the mother and her adult daughter eager to deliver a personal if unconventional message to their congressman, Republican Rep. Lloyd Smucker.\u201cHey Smucker,\u201d said the sign, written &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":[438,590,380,514],"class_list":["post-180578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-immigration","tag-protests","tag-religion","tag-teotwawki"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180578"}],"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=180578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}