{"id":13,"date":"2007-11-27T20:11:09","date_gmt":"2007-11-28T04:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=13"},"modified":"2007-11-27T20:11:09","modified_gmt":"2007-11-28T04:11:09","slug":"abc-jumps-on-the-arms-race-propaganda-bandwagon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/13\/abc-jumps-on-the-arms-race-propaganda-bandwagon\/","title":{"rendered":"ABC Jumps on the Arms Race Propaganda Bandwagon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abcnews.go.com\/WN\/story?id=3919547\">ABC<\/a> just couldn&#8217;t resist jumping on the disinformation train with <a href=\"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/7\/cnn-lying-about-assault-weapons-again\">CNN<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/2\/games-and-guns-blamed-for-surge-in-cop-killings\">Time<\/a>.  Most of the piece is the same lies spewed in the other articles, so there&#8217;s no real point in going over them again. There is one rather thing I&#8217;d like to point out though.<\/p>\n<p>As in the previous reports, they&#8217;re claiming Miami-Dade police weren&#8217;t issued &#8220;semiautomatic assault rifles&#8221; until <em>after<\/em> an incident in September involving an AK-47 lookalike. Yet, in the file footage from the incident they use in the report, there&#8217;s an officer carrying what looks like an AR-15:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.gtanet.com\/illspirit\/content\/images\/miamidade2.jpg\" alt=\"O RLY?\"><\/img><\/div>\n<p>Umm, guys, if you really expect us to believe the police weren&#8217;t carrying those rifles yet then, it would probably help if you, oh, I don&#8217;t know, didn&#8217;t show footage of the police carrying  them..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like ABC just couldn&#8217;t resist jumping on the disinformation train with CNN and Time. Most of the piece is the same lies spewed in the other articles, so there&#8217;s no real point in going over them again. There is one rather thing I&#8217;d like to point out though. As in the previous reports, they&#8217;re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illspirit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}