{"id":6477,"date":"2006-05-27T08:01:26","date_gmt":"2006-05-27T12:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=6477"},"modified":"2006-05-27T08:01:26","modified_gmt":"2006-05-27T12:01:26","slug":"letter-of-the-day-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=6477","title":{"rendered":"LETTER OF THE DAY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Terrorist&#8221; is the new &#8220;Nazi&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Protesters are terrorists, perverting Christian teaching<\/p>\n<p>I read the article about the picketers from the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan., protesting near the Marine&#8217;s funeral. This is a group of terrorists. They are in the same class of people as the ones who bombed the World Trade Center. I don&#8217;t know how they can justify upsetting the families of military personnel killed in action as God&#8217;s work. These men and women deserve respect and honor because they died serving their country. Maybe the people from this church should read the Bible, because the way they&#8217;re acting is not very Christian.<\/p>\n<p>Debbie Rowland, Dover<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The folks from Westboro are morons, idiots, despicable.  But they&#8217;re not terrorists.  AFAIK, there haven&#8217;t been any hearse-bombs.  So, can we please cut the crap with the misuse of the word &#8220;terrorist&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>P.S.  I blame GWB and Cheney for a lot of this, as for the first couple of years in the Iraq debacle, they labeled anyone fighting against American soldiers &#8220;terrorists.&#8221;  Attacking civilians and civilian targets might be terrorism; attacking an occupying military force, definitely not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Terrorist&#8221; is the new &#8220;Nazi&#8221;: Protesters are terrorists, perverting Christian teaching I read the article about the picketers from the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan., protesting near the Marine&#8217;s funeral. This is a group of terrorists. They are in the same class of people as the ones who bombed the World Trade Center. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6477"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}