{"id":307,"date":"2008-09-30T12:01:27","date_gmt":"2008-09-30T17:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/?p=307"},"modified":"2008-09-30T12:01:27","modified_gmt":"2008-09-30T17:01:27","slug":"more-untidy-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/30\/more-untidy-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"More &#8220;Untidy Freedom&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ukgaynews.org.uk\/Archive\/08\/Sep\/2501.htm\">sad news<\/a> out of Iraq this week:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Baghdad coordinator of Iraqi LGBT has been assassinated, probably by one of the two religious militia .<\/p>\n<p>Peter Tatchell of Outrage! issued the following statement at lunchtime:<\/p>\n<p>    This morning, I received news from Iraq that the coordinator of Iraqi LGBT in Baghdad, Bashar, aged 27, a university student, has been assassinated in a barber shop.<\/p>\n<p>    Militias burst in and sprayed his body with bullets at point blank range.<\/p>\n<p>    He was the organiser of the safe houses for gays and lesbians in Baghdad.  His efforts saved the lives of dozens of people.<\/p>\n<p>    Bashar was a kind, generous and extremely brave young man \u2013 a true hero who put his life on the line to save the lives of others.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As Donald Rumsfeld <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/views03\/0415-03.htm\">put it<\/a> so eloquently, &#8220;Freedom&#8217;s untidy. And free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More sad news out of Iraq this week: The Baghdad coordinator of Iraqi LGBT has been assassinated, probably by one of the two religious militia . Peter Tatchell of Outrage! issued the following statement at lunchtime: This morning, I received news from Iraq that the coordinator of Iraqi LGBT in Baghdad, Bashar, aged 27, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,101,128],"tags":[429,430,104,51,428],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.noiselabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}