{"id":30763,"date":"2017-12-20T01:21:22","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T09:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=30763"},"modified":"2017-12-20T01:21:22","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T09:21:22","slug":"ady-barkan-a-true-american-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/20\/ady-barkan-a-true-american-hero\/","title":{"rendered":"Ady Barkan &#8212; A true American hero!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Within the past few days, JD mentioned Ady Barkan, a father, a husband, a son who has been stricken with ALS but is not taking things quietly.\u00a0 Ady Barkan is an activist who was arrested on his birthday very recently for taking on the Republican party&#8217;s tax scam legislation.\u00a0 Did I say &#8216;legislation&#8217;?\u00a0 That is too legitimate sounding, too dignified for this piece of crap bill.\u00a0 Thanks JD for the tip.<\/span><\/p>\n<h1>Disabled Activist Ady Barkan: &#8216;Republicans Don&#8217;t Have The Heart To Look Me In The Eye&#8217;<\/h1>\n<blockquote class=\"repubhubembed\">\n<p class=\"rhexcerpt\">Ady Barkan is a fierce activist fighting for democracy, health care, and his own life. He suffers from ALS and will need a ventilator shortly to keep him alive and breathing while his 18-month old son grows up. Barkan is also the campaign director for Fed Up and Campaign for Democracy, and has been fighting in\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/iframe%20src='http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_msnbc_brk_barkan_gopbill_171219'%20height='500'%20width='635'%20scrolling='no'%20border='no'%20\/iframe\">\/<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_msnbc_brk_barkan_gopbill_171219\" width=\"635\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/h1Disabled%20Activist%20Ady%20Barkan:%20'Republicans%20Don't%20Have%20The%20Heart%20To%20Look%20Me%20In%20The%20Eye'\/h1blockquote%20class=repubhubembedp%20class=rhexcerptAdy%20Barkan%20is%20a%20fierce%20activist%20fighting%20for%20democracy,%20health%20care,%20and%20his%20own%20life.%20He%20suffers%20from%20ALS%20and%20will%20need%20a%20ventilator%20shortly%20to%20keep%20him%20alive%20and%20breathing%20while%20his%2018-month%20old%20son%20grows%20up.%20Barkan%20is%20also%20the%20campaign%20director%20for%20Fed%20Up%20and%20Campaign%20for%20Democracy,%20and%20has%20been%20fighting%20in\u2026!--more--\/pstyle%20scoped.repubhubembeddisplay:none;\/style\/blockquoteiframe%20allowfullscreen=%20class=rhembed%20src=https:\/\/static.icopyright.net\/user\/view.act?t=3.16035%3Ficx_id%3D135771&amp;showFirstImage=true&amp;showDate=true&amp;id=160712ef089&amp;v=1&amp;s=repubhub%20height=2429%20style=width:100%;border:0;background:transparent%20data-tag=3.16035?icx_id=135771%20data-source=repubhub%20data-safe=true\/iframescript%20async%20type=text\/javascript%20src=https:\/\/assets.repubhub.icopyright.net\/embeds\/js\/rh.js\/script\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"rhembed\" style=\"width: 100%; border: 0; background: transparent;\" src=\"https:\/\/static.icopyright.net\/user\/view.act?t=3.16035%3Ficx_id%3D135771&amp;showFirstImage=true&amp;showDate=true&amp;id=160712ef089&amp;v=1&amp;s=repubhub\" width=\"300\" height=\"2429\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-safe=\"true\" data-source=\"repubhub\" data-tag=\"3.16035?icx_id=135771\"><\/iframe><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Posted from<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2017\/12\/republicans-refuse-see-my-humanity\"><strong>Crooks and Liars<\/strong><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"695\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WAje53WZ1B4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" gesture=\"media\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">So, what are <strong><em>YOU<\/em><\/strong> going to do?<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">As Ady says, it may not be today, but the People have the moral high ground now and must continue to fight for the political high ground in 2018.\u00a0 In the end, it is the People who will win!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> To honour Ady&#8217;s request, that website is:<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>www.stopgoptaxscam.com<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/resist_2.png\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Within the past few days, JD mentioned Ady Barkan, a father, a husband, a son who has been stricken with ALS but is not taking things quietly.\u00a0 Ady Barkan is an activist who was arrested on his birthday very recently for taking on the Republican party&#8217;s tax scam legislation.\u00a0 Did I say &#8216;legislation&#8217;?\u00a0 That is <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/20\/ady-barkan-a-true-american-hero\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}