{"id":185534,"date":"2014-10-22T20:32:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T01:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/10\/22\/what-the-hell-2\/"},"modified":"2014-10-22T20:32:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T01:32:00","slug":"what-the-hell-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/10\/22\/what-the-hell-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What the Hell?!?!?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There has been what appears to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/middle_east\/2-dead-in-shooting-attack-at-canadas-parliament\/2014\/10\/22\/2ed4f1f4-5a49-11e4-9d6c-756a229d8b18_story.html\">a terrorist attack on the Canadian Parliament in Ottawa<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">A masked gunman killed a soldier standing guard at Canada\u2019s war memorial Wednesday, then stormed Parliament in an attack that was stopped cold when he was shot to death by the ceremonial sergeant-at-arms. Canada\u2019s prime minister called it the country\u2019s second terrorist attack in three days.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cWe will not be intimidated. Canada will never be intimidated,\u201d Prime Minister Stephen Harper vowed in an address to the nation.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Unfolding just before 10 a.m., while lawmakers were meeting in caucus rooms, the assault rocked Parliament over and over with the boom of gunfire, led MPs to barricade doors with chairs and sent people streaming from the building in fear. Harper was addressing a caucus when the attack began outside the door, but he safely escaped.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Investigators offered little information about the gunman, identified as 32-year-old petty criminal Michael Zehaf-Bibeau. But Harper said: \u201cIn the days to come we will learn about the terrorist and any accomplices he may have had.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Canada was already on alert at the time because of a deadly hit-and-run assault Monday against two Canadian soldiers by a man Harper described as an \u201cISIL-inspired terrorist.\u201d ISIL, or Islamic State, has called for reprisals against Canada and other Western countries that have joined the U.S.-led air campaign against the extremist group in Iraq and Syria.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Needless to say, I expect to see Canada&#8217;s own &#8220;Zombie Eyed Granny Starver&#8221;, PM Stephen Harper, to milk this for all the electoral advantage that it is worth.<\/p>\n<p>I expect him to start taking some sort of actions that are unpalatable to the opposition in the name of security, much as Bush did with the founding of DHS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been what appears to be a terrorist attack on the Canadian Parliament in Ottawa: A masked gunman killed a soldier standing guard at Canada\u2019s war memorial Wednesday, then stormed Parliament in an attack that was stopped cold when he was shot to death by the ceremonial sergeant-at-arms. Canada\u2019s prime minister called it the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1136,1113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185534"}],"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=185534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}