{"id":3164,"date":"2006-12-27T15:06:32","date_gmt":"2006-12-27T22:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/27\/a-christmas-card-from-satan\/"},"modified":"2006-12-27T15:41:08","modified_gmt":"2006-12-27T22:41:08","slug":"a-christmas-card-from-satan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/27\/a-christmas-card-from-satan\/","title":{"rendered":"A Christmas Card &#8212; from Satan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/local\/bal-reservist1226,0,4891108.story?coll=bal-local-headlines\">this little news item<\/a> is\u00c2\u00a0the equivalent of getting a Christmas card from the <a href=\"http:\/\/anti-war.com\/justin\/?articleid=9959\">War Party<\/a>. Read it, and weep.:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A man who authorities believe was an Army Reservist just called up to serve in Iraq was fatally shot by police today after a standoff that began Christmas night&#8230;. Dean&#8217;s family contacted police Monday night, saying he was armed and threatening to kill himself, the sheriff said. Dean later told police he would shoot anyone who entered the house.<\/p>\n<p>Dean was despondent about several things, including recent orders for him to go to Iraq, the family told authorities. Dean had returned in 2005 from a year-and-a-half tour in Afghanistan. Cameron did not know what reserve unit Dean served in&#8230;. About noon, while police were preparing to use gas, Dean came out the front door and pointed his weapon at police, Cameron said. At that point, a deputy shot Dean once, killing him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Is this what they mean when they say our military iis &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kansas.com\/weblog\/2006\/12\/powell_warns_of.html\">broken<\/a>&#8220;? Well, then, so is this family, along with god knows <a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/clinton10052004.html\">how<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/news.independent.co.uk\/world\/americas\/article340826.ece\">many<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/views04\/0224-07.htm\">others<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading this little news item is\u00c2\u00a0the equivalent of getting a Christmas card from the War Party. Read it, and weep.: A man who authorities believe was an Army Reservist just called up to serve in Iraq was fatally shot by police today after a standoff that began Christmas night&#8230;. Dean&#8217;s family contacted police Monday night, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"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-3164","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\/3164","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3164"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}