{"id":341,"date":"2004-06-03T18:49:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-03T23:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/uncategorised\/when-conservatives-attack.html"},"modified":"2006-10-15T18:50:06","modified_gmt":"2006-10-15T23:50:06","slug":"when-conservatives-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/politics\/when-conservatives-attack.html","title":{"rendered":"When Conservatives attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.theglobeandmail.com\/archives\/RTGAM\/images\/20040603\/elabort0306\/punch2.jpg\" alt=\"Conservative party supporter punches gay rights activist\"\/>From The Globe And Mail:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.globeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20040603.elabort0306\/BNStory\/specialDecision2004\/\">\n<p>Mr. Arron said he tried to get Mr. Harper to give a clear answer [on whether he would use the notwithstanding clause to take away the Charter rights of gay and lesbian Canadians] at a rally in Guelph, which he was attending with volunteer Bob Smyth.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Arron was shouted down by cries of &#8220;shut up, shut up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Tory supporters then hit Mr. Smyth with signs and an elderly man punched him in the face before police intervened.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is the level to which social activism in Canada has been reduced: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20040603.elabort0306\/BNStory\/specialDecision2004\/\" title=\"Old issues continue to haunt Harper\">heckles from the left and punches from the right<\/a>. Those who scream the loudest and shrillest will win. Animals, all of you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Globe And Mail:<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Arron said he tried to get Mr. Harper to give a clear answer [on whether he would use the notwithstanding clause to take away the Charter rights of gay and lesbian Canadians] at a rally in Guelph, which he was attending with volunteer Bob Smyth.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Arron was shouted&nbsp;&hellip;&nbsp;<a class=\"read_more\" href=\"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/politics\/when-conservatives-attack.html\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Continue reading &ldquo;When Conservatives attack&rdquo;\"><span>Read more<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[22,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}