{"id":4058,"date":"2011-12-18T20:15:05","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T01:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=4058"},"modified":"2026-01-27T23:53:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T04:53:45","slug":"monday-december-18-2011-%e2%80%94-we-need-more-intelligent-protest-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=4058","title":{"rendered":"Monday, December 18, 2011 \u2014 We Need More Intelligent Protest, Part&nbsp;3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/11-12-18-BLOG-Vaclav-Havel-21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4064\" title=\"11-12-18 BLOG Vaclav Havel 2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/11-12-18-BLOG-Vaclav-Havel-21.jpg\" alt width=\"450\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/11-12-18-BLOG-Vaclav-Havel-21.jpg 450w, http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/11-12-18-BLOG-Vaclav-Havel-21-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We will pause in mem\u00ado\u00adry of some\u00adone who knew the mean\u00ading of protest.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>V\u00e1clav Hav\u00adel&nbsp;\u2014 Octo\u00adber 5, 1936&nbsp;\u2013 18 Decem\u00adber 18,&nbsp;2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"dquo\">\u201c<\/span><em>Truth and love must pre\u00advail over lies and hate.<\/em>\u201d \u2014 V.H.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Read this <a href=\"http:\/\/johnkeane.net\/32\/news\/remembering-the-many-vaclav-havels\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">fine sum\u00adma\u00adtion<\/span><\/a> of Havel\u2019s char\u00adac\u00adter and career by John Keane. Par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly worth not\u00ading is this paragraph:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\"><em>So, giv\u00aden his mul\u00adti\u00adple per\u00adson\u00adal\u00adi\u00adties and abun\u00addant achieve\u00adments, what is the best way to remem\u00adber V\u00e1clav Hav\u00adel? We should mourn his pass\u00ading, cer\u00adtain\u00adly. But democ\u00adra\u00adcies shouldn\u2019t immor\u00adtal\u00adize their lead\u00aders, past or present. They mustn\u2019t allow any\u00adbody to sit on thrones. Yes, they need to pre\u00adserve mem\u00ado\u00adries of fig\u00adures like Hav\u00adel, par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly in our dark\u00aden\u00ading times, when more than a few democ\u00adra\u00adcies find them\u00adselves in trou\u00adble. Yet democ\u00adrats should try to live with\u00adout polit\u00adi\u00adcal heroes and myths of great leaders.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><br>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We will pause in mem\u00ado\u00adry of some\u00adone who knew the mean\u00ading of protest. V\u00e1clav Hav\u00adel&nbsp;\u2014 Octo\u00adber 5, 1936&nbsp;\u2013 18 Decem\u00adber 18,&nbsp;2011 \u201cTruth and love must pre\u00advail over lies and hate.\u201d \u2014 V.H. Read this fine sum\u00adma\u00adtion of Havel\u2019s char\u00adac\u00adter&nbsp;and&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=4058\">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":[1,927,946,928],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-blog","category-ap-blog-2011","category-b-reading","category-bp-reading-2011"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4058","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=4058"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4082,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4058\/revisions\/4082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}