{"id":118,"date":"2006-12-05T06:19:55","date_gmt":"2006-12-05T11:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/?p=118"},"modified":"2006-12-12T14:16:37","modified_gmt":"2006-12-12T19:16:37","slug":"first-they-came","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/2006\/12\/05\/first-they-came\/","title":{"rendered":"First They Came&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After fighting for a week to get into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/ibonewits\">my CafePress.com online store,<\/a> I finally managed to upload my latest artwork for a politically in-your-face tshirt.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.neopagan.net\/graphics\/First-they-came-25x25-96dpi.png\" alt=\"First They Came tshirt art\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>After hearing and seeing the story about the imams who were tossed off a flight for daring to pray in an airport, and reading about a radio talkshow host who got several of his listeners to bite on a hoax announcement that Muslims were about to be required to wear crescent armbands and get tattoos identifying them as Muslims, I just had to respond.<\/p>\n<p>So I did the usual sending of disgusted email to my congresscritters, and I posted about it at <a href=\"http:\/\/dailykos.com\">The Daily Kos<\/a>, but I wanted to do more. Then the old quote about &#8220;First they came for the Jews&#8230;&#8221; hit me and I knew it was time for a rewrite.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, I&#8217;m a Pagan, not a Muslim. I don&#8217;t agree with Muslim theology about much of anything and I&#8217;m sure I would be targeted if I traveled in the Middle East and any of the local lunatics found out about my beliefs. But that&#8217;s not the point! I live in America and we&#8217;re supposed to honor people&#8217;s freedom of (and from) religion.<\/p>\n<p>So if you&#8217;re looking for a unique Yule gift for that Muslim, Unitarian, or civil liberties activist on your list, just drop on by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/ibonewits\">my store<\/a> and snap up a few shirts or coffee mugs (I decided beer steins probably weren&#8217;t appropriate).<\/p>\n<p>If people are interested in having me make up some buttons or other items with this theme, let me know.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After fighting for a week to get into my CafePress.com online store, I finally managed to upload my latest artwork for a politically in-your-face tshirt. <a href=\"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/2006\/12\/05\/first-they-came\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-products"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}