{"id":188410,"date":"2010-10-03T10:19:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-03T15:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/10\/03\/so-far-in-the-closet-hes-found-narnia\/"},"modified":"2010-10-03T10:19:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-03T15:19:00","slug":"so-far-in-the-closet-hes-found-narnia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/10\/03\/so-far-in-the-closet-hes-found-narnia\/","title":{"rendered":"So Far in the Closet He&#8217;s Found Narnia*"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; width: 310px; float: right; text-align: center;\"><object height=\"250\" width=\"300\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/PwObjKZg9Jw?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/PwObjKZg9Jw?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"250\" width=\"300\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Let&#8217;s Roll Tape<\/span><\/div>\n<p>An Assistant Attorney General for the state of Michigan, one Andrew Shirvell, has engaged in what can only be described as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2010\/09\/30\/mich-asst-attorney-g.html\">a relentless campaign of stalking<\/a>, both Cyber and Real, against the Chris Armstrong, the gay president of the student assembly. (See the embedded vid)<\/p>\n<p>Shirvell has now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/10\/02\/us\/politics\/02michigan.html\">been placed on leave<\/a> and is facing a disciplinary hearing, despite the fact that Michigan AG, and Christofascist right-winger, Mike Cox, has defended the right to stalk someone for being gay, no doubt because this is how Cox defines his base.<\/p>\n<p>The crux of the batsh%$ insane jihad seems to be Armstrong&#8217;s push for LGBT friendly housing on campus, which has led the Assistant AG to make blog posts with swastikas, and to allegedly hang around and photograph Armstrong&#8217;s house in the early hours of the meeting, which has led him to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.annarbor.com\/news\/university-of-michigan-student-body-president-seeks-restraining-order-against-assistant-state-attorn\/\">file for a restraining order against Shirvell<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the scheme of things, this incident will work itself out in the near term, the restraining order will likely be granted, and I&#8217;m pretty sure that Shirvell will eventually be fired, despite his being a long time supporter, and campaign worker, for Cox, because this has simply gotten too politically toxic.<\/p>\n<p>This would all be silly and funny, but I figure than in the next 10-15 years, as Shirvell realizes what he is, and the video makes it clear that he is deeply in the closet, we are likely to hear a story about him in which the lede is, &#8220;Killed his wife and children, and then shot himself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">The bon mot is not mine, it&#8217;s from Bladesmith at the by invitation only <a href=\"http:\/\/stellarparthenon.org\/\">Stellar Parthenon BBS<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s Roll Tape An Assistant Attorney General for the state of Michigan, one Andrew Shirvell, has engaged in what can only be described as a relentless campaign of stalking, both Cyber and Real, against the Chris Armstrong, the gay president of the student assembly. (See the embedded vid) Shirvell has now been placed on leave &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,972,1030,978,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigotry","category-justice","category-lgbtq","category-politics","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188410"}],"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=188410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}