{"id":3421,"date":"2005-07-06T13:01:54","date_gmt":"2005-07-06T21:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/07\/06\/chickenhawks-and-otherwise\/"},"modified":"2005-07-06T13:01:54","modified_gmt":"2005-07-06T21:01:54","slug":"chickenhawks-and-otherwise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/06\/chickenhawks-and-otherwise\/","title":{"rendered":"Chickenhawks and otherwise"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tGeorge Soros’ stooge Duncan (Atrios) Black is whining about the so-called Chickenhawks who opposed Saddam<\/a> even though they hadn’t actually been tortured or murdered themselves, so the Indepundit puts him in his place:<\/p>\n

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DUNCAN BLACK says Nathan Taylor should “sign up or shut up.”<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve never met Nathan Taylor. I\u2019m guessing that Duncan hasn\u2019t, either. Yet Duncan seems to be arguing that Nathan can\u2019t support the war unless he is prepared to fight in it himself.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not going to speculate as to why Nathan hasn\u2019t enlisted. It\u2019s his life, and he has to make his own choices. Not having met Duncan, I also won\u2019t speculate as to why he wants Nathan to “shut up.” I thought liberals were supposed to believe in freedom of speech.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s not surprising that some of these free speech-deniers support the communist Chinese police state<\/a> recently embarassed by hackers:<\/p>\n

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Police states, like China, have a serious problem with the Internet. They need it, for economic reasons. The Internet has become part of the worldwide economic infrastructure. But the Internet also allows unfettered exchange of information. For a police state, this is bad. A police state remains in power, in part, by controlling the media. China has a booming economy, and cannot afford to lock down, or keep out, the Internet, as has happened in police states with poor economies (North Korea, Cuba, Burma). So China is adding more software, and personnel, to police Chinese Internet users. So far, their approach has made many casual Internet users wary of saying, or looking for, anything the government does not approve of. But millions of more savvy Chinese Internet users know of ways to get around the \u201cGreat Firewall of China,\u201d to do as they wish on the Internet. This attack on the Beijing General Security Service was just a reminder that the Chinese war on the Internet is far from over.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Internet is the kind of disruptive technology feared by fascist powers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

George Soros’ stooge Duncan (Atrios) Black is whining about the so-called Chickenhawks who opposed Saddam even though they hadn’t actually been tortured or murdered themselves, so the Indepundit puts him in his place: DUNCAN BLACK says Nathan Taylor should “sign up or shut up.” I\u2019ve never met Nathan Taylor. I\u2019m guessing that Duncan hasn\u2019t, either. … Continue reading “Chickenhawks and otherwise”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-Tb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}