{"id":393,"date":"2003-04-23T20:14:12","date_gmt":"2003-04-24T01:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=393"},"modified":"2003-04-23T20:14:12","modified_gmt":"2003-04-24T01:14:12","slug":"the_tyrant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/04\/23\/the_tyrant.html","title":{"rendered":"The Tyrant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>His gall is legendary.  With a long history of thumbing his nose as his neighbors, and sending his troops overseas on various intervening ventures, and now still supported by toadying celebrities and &#8220;intellectuals,&#8221; he&#8217;s used the Iraq War as a distracting smoke screen to cover up ever-growing civil rights abuses and crushing of dissent.  <\/p>\n<p>Citizens have been warned repeatedly that to disagree with him and his cronies is a sign of disloyalty to the entire nation.  Dozens of human rights activists have been tossed in prison &#8212; or simply gone missing, just for speaking out, or protesting his tyranny in print.  <\/p>\n<p>Independent journalists, too, are subject to arbitrary detention, trumped-up (or undefined) charges, and imprisonment for decades &#8212; or maybe forever.<\/p>\n<p>Funny thing is, Michael Moore doesn&#8217;t seem to be making speeches (or movies) about <a title=\"Hoystory.com\" href=\"http:\/\/hoystory.blogspot.com\/2003_04_01_hoystory_archive.html#200186445\">him<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><small>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instapundit.com\/archives\/009101.php#009101\">InstaPundit<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His gall is legendary. 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