{"id":11827,"date":"2015-11-29T19:59:04","date_gmt":"2015-11-29T19:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11827"},"modified":"2015-11-29T19:59:04","modified_gmt":"2015-11-29T19:59:04","slug":"hes-a-poster-boy-for-various-causes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11827","title":{"rendered":"He&#8217;s a poster boy for various causes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/suspect.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11813\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/suspect-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"suspect\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/suspect-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/suspect-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/suspect.jpg 1334w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Robert Lewis Dear&#8217;s picture has been plastered all over the media of late with good reason.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s about to become a poster boy for a number of key debate points in our modern political environment.<\/p>\n<p>Dear is accused of killing three people and injuring several others in that Friday shooting rampage at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colo. He&#8217;s going to court Monday to be arraigned.<\/p>\n<p>Usually, someone accused of a high-profile crime gets to see his face related to one, maybe two, issues at once. Not so with this guy,\u00a0Dear.<\/p>\n<p>For instance.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He&#8217;s being discussed in the context of Planned Parenthood and women&#8217;s abortion rights. He told the cops &#8220;no more baby parts,&#8221; leaving authorities and the media to speculate that the shooting rampage was politically motivated. Is he a longtime anti-abortion activist?<\/li>\n<li>Dear has been called a &#8220;domestic terrorist&#8221; who could become the face of non-Muslim, Anglo Americans who are just as prone to commit acts of terror as those evil foreigners seeking to sneak into the United States.<\/li>\n<li>He carried a rifle into the Planned Parenthood building, which brings to mind the issue of gun control. Some will ask, &#8220;How did this guy obtain a gun so easily?&#8221; Ah, yes, the gun control debate will flare up once again.<\/li>\n<li>And, finally, he might become the face of mental health treatment and the need to be on the lookout for those who are capable of committing such horrible crimes?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Wow! That&#8217;s four of them &#8212; four issues that, taken separately, all provide enough grist for friends to become foes in a heartbeat.<\/p>\n<p>And to think that one man could be at the center of it all.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Lewis Dear&#8217;s picture has been plastered all over the media of late with good reason. He&#8217;s about to become a poster boy for a number of key debate points in our modern political environment. Dear is accused of killing three people and injuring several others in that Friday shooting rampage at a Planned Parenthood &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11827\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">He&#8217;s a poster boy for various causes<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[5682,2025,3168,3609,5685,4562],"class_list":["post-11827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-colorado-springs-shooting","tag-gun-control","tag-muslims","tag-planned-parenthood","tag-robert-lewis-dear","tag-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11828,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11827\/revisions\/11828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}