{"id":1066,"date":"2008-02-22T20:42:29","date_gmt":"2008-02-23T01:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s265039441.onlinehome.us\/philpaine\/?p=1066"},"modified":"2018-08-15T00:35:02","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T04:35:02","slug":"friday-february-22-2008-a-shameful-display-of-contempt-for-democracy-from-general-hillier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=1066","title":{"rendered":"Friday, February 22, 2008 \u2014 A Shameful Display of Contempt for Democracy From General Hillier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I have lost all respect for Gen\u00ader\u00adal Rick Hilli\u00ader, Canada\u2019s Chief of Defense Staff (the high\u00adest rank\u00ading mil\u00adi\u00adtary offi\u00adcer in the coun\u00adtry).&nbsp;He may be very com\u00adpe\u00adtent in run\u00adning mil\u00adi\u00adtary oper\u00ada\u00adtions, but he can\u00adnot be trust\u00aded in the fun\u00adda\u00admen\u00adtal area of prop\u00ader pub\u00adlic behav\u00adiour for some\u00adone in his post.&nbsp;He has done some\u00adthing which is extreme\u00adly offen\u00adsive to a free peo\u00adple in a demo\u00adc\u00adra\u00adt\u00adic nation.&nbsp;He has used his office to try to muz\u00adzle demo\u00adc\u00adra\u00adt\u00adic debate in Cana\u00adda about our role in Afghanistan.&nbsp;By claim\u00ading that our free demo\u00adc\u00adra\u00adt\u00adic debate \u201chelps\u201d the Tal\u00adiban, he is demon\u00adstrat\u00ading that he, him\u00adself, is infect\u00aded with the vilest ide\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy of the Tal\u00adiban.&nbsp;His \u201cshut up, don\u2019t think, and do what you\u2019re told\u201d atti\u00adtude to the Cana\u00addi\u00adan peo\u00adple is pro\u00adfound\u00adly offen\u00adsive.&nbsp;He should be removed from his post at&nbsp;once.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The rul\u00ading Con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive par\u00adty is rife with kind of Tal\u00adiban-like men\u00adtal\u00adi\u00adty.&nbsp;We should be work\u00ading to get rid of them,&nbsp;too.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have lost all respect for Gen\u00ader\u00adal Rick Hilli\u00ader, Canada\u2019s Chief of Defense Staff (the high\u00adest rank\u00ading mil\u00adi\u00adtary offi\u00adcer in the coun\u00adtry).&nbsp;He may be very com\u00adpe\u00adtent in run\u00adning mil\u00adi\u00adtary oper\u00ada\u00adtions, but he can\u00adnot be trust\u00aded in the fun\u00adda\u00admen\u00adtal area&nbsp;of&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=1066\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-blog","category-as-blog-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1066"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8708,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions\/8708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}