{"id":285,"date":"2003-11-19T21:24:39","date_gmt":"2003-11-20T04:24:39","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2003-11-19T21:24:39","modified_gmt":"2003-11-20T04:24:39","slug":"they-can-take-my-cyberspace-when-they-pry-my-cold-dead-fingers-off-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/19\/they-can-take-my-cyberspace-when-they-pry-my-cold-dead-fingers-off-it\/","title":{"rendered":"They Can Take My Cyberspace When They Pry My Cold, Dead Fingers off It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To (some of) my lefty friends: <a href=http:\/\/www.washtimes.com\/world\/20031117-113002-7678r.htm>this is why I hate the U.N.<\/a> Oh yeah, don&#8217;t forget the brutal sanctions against Iraq (child death toll: 350,000-530,000) and the weapons inspections (which, the <a href=http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/infocus\/iraq\/decade\/sect2.html>Bush administration frequently and correctly notes<\/a>, provided the pretext for every bomb dropped on Iraq over the last thirteen years).<\/p>\n<p>FAIR &#038; BALANCED UPDATE: There are worse regimes than the U.N.&#8211;<a href=http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/world\/20031113-110707-3370r.htm>Mike Bloomberg&#8217;s comes to mind<\/a>&#8211;but scale is important. Bloomberg&#8217;s radius of tyranny is small and circumscribed; the U.N.&#8217;s is enormous and creeping. Now substitute &#8220;Saddam Hussein&#8221; for Bloomberg and &#8220;U.S. government&#8221; for U.N. and you&#8217;ve got the gaping hole in liberventionist theory. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To (some of) my lefty friends: this is why I hate the U.N. Oh yeah, don&#8217;t forget the brutal sanctions against Iraq (child death toll: 350,000-530,000) and the weapons inspections (which, the Bush administration frequently and correctly notes, provided the pretext for every bomb dropped on Iraq over the last thirteen years). FAIR &#038; BALANCED [&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-285","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\/285","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=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}