{"id":67,"date":"2008-07-15T13:00:20","date_gmt":"2008-07-15T21:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trampleasure.net\/lee\/?p=67"},"modified":"2008-07-15T13:03:05","modified_gmt":"2008-07-15T21:03:05","slug":"war-resister-support-protest-at-peace-arch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trampleasure.net\/lee\/2008\/07\/war-resister-support-protest-at-peace-arch\/","title":{"rendered":"War Resister support protest at Peace Arch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Album with photos from protest\" href=\"https:\/\/trampleasure.net\/lee\/gallery\/main.php\/v\/july2008\/?g2_page=6\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 2px; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/trampleasure.net\/lee\/gallery\/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&amp;g2_itemId=1201&amp;g2_serialNumber=1\" alt=\"Photo of protest\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>On my way back from Canada, I stopped for my usual visit to the <a title=\"Peace Arch page on Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peace_Arch\">Peace Arch<\/a> on the Canada\/US border. This year I was pleasantly surprised to find a protest in favor of US war resistors, and Robin Long in particular. For more details, see <a title=\"War Resisters Canada web site\" href=\"http:\/\/resisters.ca\/index_en.html\">http:\/\/resisters.ca\/index_en.html<\/a>. Click the photo on the right for more photos.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 150px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 150\/120;border: 2px solid black; margin: 2px; float: left;\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.couragetoresist.org\/x\/images\/stories\/canada\/long-150.jpg\" alt=\"Robin Long\" width=\"150\" height=\"120\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/>In short, Robin Long is a US Army soldier who fled to Ontario in 2005. He has been in Canadian courts as one of the test cases for deportation. While the Canadian Parliament votes (non-binding) to allow US soldiers who have left the US to stay, the Prime Minister has different politics.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the <a title=\"Link to article in WSJ\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/law\/2008\/07\/15\/in-first-canada-clears-way-for-deportation-of-us-army-deserter\/\">Wall Street Journal article on Long&#8217;s deportation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I was interviewed by <a title=\"GlobalTV web site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/globaltv\/bc\/index.html\">GlobalTV<\/a>, so I might appear in an online story there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On my way back from Canada, I stopped for my usual visit to the Peace Arch on the Canada\/US border. This year I was pleasantly surprised to find a protest in favor of US war resistors, and Robin Long in particular. For more details, see http:\/\/resisters.ca\/index_en.html. Click the photo on the right for more photos. In short, Robin Long is&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,12],"tags":[40,41,43,42],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peace","category-summer-2008","tag-desserter","tag-resister","tag-robin-long","tag-war-resister"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trampleasure.net\/lee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trampleasure.net\/lee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trampleasure.net\/lee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trampleasure.net\/lee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trampleasure.net\/lee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/trampleasure.net\/lee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trampleasure.net\/lee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trampleasure.net\/lee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trampleasure.net\/lee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}