{"id":231,"date":"2003-11-03T18:35:46","date_gmt":"2003-11-04T01:35:46","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2003-11-03T18:35:46","modified_gmt":"2003-11-04T01:35:46","slug":"well-need-an-alibi-ms-coulter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/03\/well-need-an-alibi-ms-coulter\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;ll Need an Alibi, Ms. Coulter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In unreported news, <a href=http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/views03\/1101-07.htm>arson caused $50,000 damage<\/a> to the home of <a href=http:\/\/www.mennoweekly.org\/2story.htm>Mennonite antiwar activists<\/a> on October 20. Assuming this ever comes to trial, here&#8217;s a can&#8217;t-lose defense strategy: <\/p>\n<p>1. Call the fire a preemptive strike<br \/>\n2. Insist that the victims were stockpiling weapons (the evidence must have been destroyed in the fire)<br \/>\n3. Frequently remind the jury about the goddamn foreigner who lived with the family and the propensity of goddamn foreigners to belong to al Qaeda<br \/>\n4. Note the benefits to the community that will come from rebuilding the home <\/p>\n<p>Presto! Reelection! Er, <i>acquittal<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In unreported news, arson caused $50,000 damage to the home of Mennonite antiwar activists on October 20. Assuming this ever comes to trial, here&#8217;s a can&#8217;t-lose defense strategy: 1. Call the fire a preemptive strike 2. Insist that the victims were stockpiling weapons (the evidence must have been destroyed in the fire) 3. Frequently remind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}