{"id":2648,"date":"2006-02-10T21:28:20","date_gmt":"2006-02-11T04:28:20","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-02-10T21:28:20","modified_gmt":"2006-02-11T04:28:20","slug":"im-a-murderer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/10\/im-a-murderer\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI\u2019m a murderer.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday night I met a guy who, it turns out, was a soldier in town (Austin) from Ft. Hood. He was a nice chap. We chatted for a while, then when he complained about the overwhelming show of force by the local cops on their taxpayer horses, I took the opportunity &#8211; of course &#8211; to say something to the effect of, \u201cAll government does is tax, torture and murder people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then he asked me, \u201cSee this haircut?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I nodded.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cThat means I\u2019m a murderer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To which I responded, not sarcastically, just surprised, \u201cOh. \u2026 Really?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYup.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I asked, \u201cWho do you murder?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He answered in one word: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/72.14.207.104\/search?q=cache:BjjGgVPtWV4J:www.antiwar.com\/horton\/%3Farticleid%3D6833+hajis+important+site:antiwar.com&#038;hl=en&#038;gl=us&#038;ct=clnk&#038;cd=1\">Hajis<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I wondered aloud if that meant everybody east of Jerusalem or what?<\/p>\n<p>He said \u201cIraqis. Hajis.\u201d His girl grabbed his arm and off they went. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday night I met a guy who, it turns out, was a soldier in town (Austin) from Ft. Hood. He was a nice chap. We chatted for a while, then when he complained about the overwhelming show of force by the local cops on their taxpayer horses, I took the opportunity &#8211; of course &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"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-2648","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\/2648","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2648"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}