{"id":343,"date":"2006-10-11T21:19:56","date_gmt":"2006-10-12T01:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/discussion\/2006\/10\/11\/in-the-news\/"},"modified":"2024-07-21T09:45:03","modified_gmt":"2024-07-21T13:45:03","slug":"in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/in-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"In the news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man named Adam Gadahn is in the news today, because he&#8217;s been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/LAW\/10\/11\/gadahn\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">charged with treason<\/a> for issuing threats against the U.S. as a member of Al Qaeda. People reading about him and searching the Web might find another article, one which has been online for awhile now.<\/p>\n<p>The article I&#8217;m referring to [has been taken down], though [it was] re-posted in a couple of other places as well. About halfway down the page, Abrupt is mentioned in a short list of &#8220;dissident organizations&#8221; in a way that groups it with Al Qaeda.  Previously, that struck us merely as an anomaly. Now it demands a response.<\/p>\n<p>Abrupt condemns the taking of human life, in the strongest terms. Our goal has always been the changing of <em>perceptions<\/em>, because in a democratic society, the perceptions people hold presumeably influence their political decisions. However much we may like criticisms of the media, of consumer society, of the Administration, we are still a <em>humanist<\/em> enterprise.<\/p>\n<p>Abrupt believes that alleigances to country, race, and religion must become secondary to an appreciation for humanity as a species. We believe that solutions to human problems must be constructive, not destructive. To survive the cataclysm of the inevitable, we must become <em>smarter<\/em>, not more militant. Fools like Gadahn have chosen the comfort and simplicity of ideology over the terror of not knowing what is right.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike Gadahn and his friends in Al Qaeda, we do not have easy answers. I intend to live with that.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211;abrupt<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man named Adam Gadahn is in the news today, because he&#8217;s been charged with treason for issuing threats against the U.S. as a member of Al Qaeda. People reading about him and searching the Web might find another article, one which has been online for awhile now. The article [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[309,29,283],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-abrupt","tag-ideology","tag-politics","tag-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3651,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions\/3651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abrupt.org\/abruptlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}