{"id":1915,"date":"2008-10-23T18:06:31","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T23:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=1915"},"modified":"2008-10-23T18:07:07","modified_gmt":"2008-10-23T23:07:07","slug":"the-old-ways-die-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/1915","title":{"rendered":"The Old Ways Die Hard…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via Sullivan…  Once upon a time, gay folk were easy targets for blackmail.  And if some people have their way…<\/p>\n

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Threatening Letters Spark New Prop 8 Controversy<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Video Only —<\/strong> A threatening letter has sparked a new controversy here in San Diego surrounding the gay marriage debate. Donors who gave money to the No on Prop 8 campaign say they received blackmail letters demanding money, and the Yes on 8 campaign now says the letters were sent by their employees.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In Nicholas Meyer’s Sherlock Holmes novel, The West End Horror, there’s a scene between Holmes and Oscar Wilde…I’m quoting from memory here…where Wilde tells Holmes that he has a perfect way of dealing with blackmailers when they threaten him with incriminating letters.  "I publish them", he says. \n<\/p>\n

Donate to No On 8, Here<\/a>.  Maybe you’ll get one of these letters too…suitable for framing…or posting online…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Via Sullivan…  Once upon a time, gay folk were easy targets for blackmail.  And if some people have their way… Threatening Letters Spark New Prop 8 Controversy Video Only — A threatening letter has sparked a new controversy here in San Diego surrounding the gay marriage debate. Donors who gave money to the No on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[16,26,78,12],"class_list":["post-1915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-marriage","tag-the-bully-mindset","tag-the-struggle-for-america","tag-the-struggle-for-our-lives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}