{"id":375351,"date":"2018-08-29T15:35:40","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T14:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/do-not-let-them-make-a-saint\/"},"modified":"2018-08-29T15:35:40","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T14:35:40","slug":"do-not-let-them-make-a-saint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/do-not-let-them-make-a-saint\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Not Let Them Make a Saint"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                            \t<!-- S3 Cache --><!-- S3:S3:Non-Original -->\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"quoteText\"><strong><em>\u201cOur strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness \u2013 and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we\u2019re being brainwashed to believe.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>~ Arundhati Roy<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>John McCain\u2019s family\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mccain.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm\/press-releases?ID=3341C03B-CCB5-4F41-B200-F800C8A48BBD\">has announced<\/a>\u00a0that the Arizona Senator has opted to end treatment for brain cancer and live out his final few days in peace, presumably under the best hospice care money can buy. And I sincerely hope that it is peaceful. My statements about my desire for John McCain to shuffle off this mortal coil sooner rather than later have been highly publicized, and I stand by all of them, but I don\u2019t wish him a painful or agitated end.<\/p>\n<p>And, also, I am going to keep hammering on how very important it is that we refuse to bow to the aggressive demands from establishment loyalists that we be respectful of this warmongering psychopath and his blood-soaked legacy.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I lost my father recently. It was the hardest thing I\u2019ve ever gone through.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever your views on John McCain or his legacy, his family is suffering right now.<\/p>\n<p>It costs you nothing to show him and his family the basic human dignity all people deserve.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mikel Jollett (@Mikel_Jollett) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mikel_Jollett\/status\/1033065626560913408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 24, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>McCain is at the top of the trends list on Twitter in the US as I write this, and clicking on his name brings up countless blue-checkmarked establishment loyalists from both sides of the imaginary partisan divide sternly admonishing us all to put aside our differences and show reverence for this brave, noble hero in his final days. They are using guilt, sympathy and patriotism to bully&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2018\/08\/no_author\/do-not-let-them-make-a-saint-of-this-creep\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOur strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness \u2013 and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-375351","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}