{"id":186038,"date":"2014-06-04T18:27:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T23:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/06\/04\/btw-while-we-are-on-the-whole-bergdahl-thing\/"},"modified":"2014-06-04T18:27:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T23:27:00","slug":"btw-while-we-are-on-the-whole-bergdahl-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/06\/04\/btw-while-we-are-on-the-whole-bergdahl-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"BTW, While We are on the Whole Bergdahl Thing\u2026\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That the homecoming party for Bowe Bergdahl because of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/nation\/nationnow\/la-na-bowe-bergdahl-hometown-celebration-canceled-due-to-security-concerns-20140604-story.html\">violence from the right wing knuckle draggers<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The controversy over whether the U.S. should have traded five members of the Taliban for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl reached all the way to Hailey, Idaho, on Wednesday, as the soldier\u2019s hometown canceled its celebration of his freedom amid <b><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">threats and security worries<\/span><\/b>.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Hailey Mayor Fritz Haemmerle told the Los Angeles Times that the town had been deluged with calls and letters of complaint that it was honoring a deserter. The event had been intended as a private celebration, he said, but the organizers decided it was too provocative considering the bitter national dialogue.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cThe police chief is aware of the types of people who have threatened to come up and protest this thing,\u201d Haemmerle said. \u201cWe\u2019re a town of 8,000 people. <b><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">The last thing we want is trouble<\/span><\/b>.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">So Haemmerle said he asked the chief to talk to the organizers.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cFor better or worse, there are people who blame Bowe for the deaths of other soldiers who searched for him. If that\u2019s true, it\u2019s just tragic,\u201d he said. \u201c<b><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">We don\u2019t need any more people to get hurt<\/span><\/b>. I don\u2019t think Bowe\u2019s family needs that. It\u2019s not in anyone\u2019s best interests.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<i>emphasis mine<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>So, the wingers were threatening violence over a private party for parents and relatives to celebrate their son coming home.<\/p>\n<p>All because it was a black Democrat that got him home.<\/p>\n<p>These folks are one open carry incident away from becoming actual terrorists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That the homecoming party for Bowe Bergdahl because of violence from the right wing knuckle draggers: The controversy over whether the U.S. should have traded five members of the Taliban for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl reached all the way to Hailey, Idaho, on Wednesday, as the soldier\u2019s hometown canceled its celebration of his freedom amid &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[969,1006,1076],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evil","category-military","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186038"}],"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=186038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}