{"id":449405,"date":"2010-03-19T14:03:57","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T18:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.campaignforliberty.com\/blog.php?view=33727"},"modified":"2010-03-19T14:03:57","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T18:03:57","slug":"maybe-the-president-should-rethink-his-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/449405","title":{"rendered":"Maybe the President Should Rethink His Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Gary Howard<\/p>\n<p>Just wanted to post <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20100305\/ap_on_re_as\/as_indonesia_obama\" >this piece<\/a> from a while back. Indonesian students are rightly upset about U.S. foreign policy, which has not altered one bit since Obama took office.<\/p>\n<p>From AP:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Scores of Islamic students staged protests outside Jakarta&#8217;s  parliament and in at least three other major Indonesian cities on Friday  against President  Barack Obama&#8217;s upcoming visit to this predominantly Muslim  country.<\/p>\n<p>The students carried banners branding Obama as an enemy of Islam and an  imperialist in downtown Jakarta as  well as in the provincial capitals Padang, Yogyakarta and Surabaya. <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20100305\/ap_on_re_as\/as_indonesia_obama\" >Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>These folks apparently didn&#8217;t get that &#8220;change&#8221; memo.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>They also threw shoes at large pictures of Obama&#8217;s head. An Iraqi  journalist was sentenced to a year in prison for throwing his shoes at U.S. President  George W. Bush during a news conference in Baghdad in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Protest organizer Ahmad Irhamul Fikri, spokesman for  the Coordinating Board for Campus Proselytizing Institute, said bigger  rallies will be staged next Friday in more Indonesian cities ahead of  Obama&#8217;s March 20-22 visit. <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20100305\/ap_on_re_as\/as_indonesia_obama\" >Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe more of those Americans who screamed and protested so loudly against the wars during the Bush years should take a cue from these kids in Indonesia&#8211;and call the administration to task for its continuation of those policies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Gary Howard Just wanted to post this piece from a while back. Indonesian students are rightly upset about U.S. foreign policy, which has not altered one bit since Obama took office. From AP: Scores of Islamic students staged protests outside Jakarta&#8217;s parliament and in at least three other major Indonesian cities on Friday against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3999,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-449405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3999"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}