{"id":5977,"date":"2011-02-12T01:01:25","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T16:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/haakondahl.com\/blog\/?p=181"},"modified":"2011-02-12T01:01:25","modified_gmt":"2011-02-11T16:01:25","slug":"this-ones-for-khaled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/this-ones-for-khaled\/","title":{"rendered":"This One's For Khaled"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s the man behind Egypt’s revolution:
\n\"khaled\"<\/a>
\nThis is Khaled Said. He’s not an activist.\u00a0 He’s not an\u00a0organizer. He’s dead.<\/p>\n

Egyptian police beat him to death<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 Don’t go if you can’t hack it.\u00a0\u00a0 That picture is a large part of what brought Mubarak low, and continues to reverberate.<\/p>\n

So yes, worry about extremists taking over, but do not make the mistake of thinking that the protesters in Egypt are a bunch of idiots led by extremists, or a bunch of extremists themselves. What they are is sick of being abused by an unwanted government. And that’s a good thing, right?<\/p>\n

It’s not my revolution, so I don’t get to dedicate it.\u00a0 Wasn’t my sorry butt out there in Tahrir Square.\u00a0 But I don’t think I’ll hear any arguments.<\/p>\n

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Here’s the man behind Egypt’s revolution:
\"khaled\"<\/a>
This is Khaled Said. He’s not an activist.\u00a0 He’s not an\u00a0organizer. He’s dead.<\/p>\n

Egyptian police beat him to death<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 Don’t go if you can’t hack it.\u00a0\u00a0 That picture is a large part of what brought Mubarak low, and continues to reverberate.<\/p>\n

So yes, worry about extremists taking over, but do not make the mistake of thinking that the protesters in Egypt are a bunch of idiots led by extremists, or a bunch of extremists themselves. What they are is sick of being abused by an unwanted government. And that’s a good thing, right?<\/p>\n

It’s not my revolution, so I don’t get to dedicate it.\u00a0 Wasn’t … Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34128,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[241,244],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-egypt","category-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}