{"id":427,"date":"2007-07-02T09:05:19","date_gmt":"2007-07-02T13:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/2007\/07\/02\/danial-ellsberg-dont-wait-until-the-"},"modified":"2007-07-02T10:09:58","modified_gmt":"2007-07-02T14:09:58","slug":"danial-ellsberg-dont-wait-until-the-bombs-are-falling-on-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/2007\/07\/02\/danial-ellsberg-dont-wait-until-the-bombs-are-falling-on-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Ellsberg: Don&#8217;t wait until the bombs are falling on Iran."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Dan Ellsberg on <a href=\"http:\/\/democracynow.org\/\">Amy and Juan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/article.pl?sid=07\/07\/02\/1331248\" target=\"_blank\">Archived streams  available.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Don&#8217;t do what I did. Don&#8217;t wait &#8217;til the war has started. Don&#8217;t wait until the bombs have fallen against Iran. &#8230; Obey your oath to the Constitution &#8230; not to the Commander in Chief&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Ellsberg to those with modern equivalents of the Pentagon Papers in their safes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In honoring Beacon Press<sup>1<\/sup>, which published the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pentagon_Papers\">Pentagon Papers<sup>2<\/sup><\/a> thirty five years ago, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Unitarian_Universalism\">Unitarian Universalist Church<\/a> held a convocation in Portland Oregon. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Daniel_Ellsberg\">Dan Ellsberg<\/a> was invited to recount his part in getting the papers to Beacon. Also asked to recount his part was former Senator and Presidential candidate Mike Gravel.<\/p>\n<p><sup>1<\/sup>Beacon Press is sponsored by the Unitarian Universalist Church.<\/p>\n<p><sup>2<\/sup>Thirty five other publishers had refused to publish them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Ellsberg on Amy and Juan. Archived streams available. Don&#8217;t do what I did. Don&#8217;t wait &#8217;til the war has started. Don&#8217;t wait until the bombs have fallen against Iran. &#8230; Obey your oath to the Constitution &#8230; not to the Commander in Chief&#8230; Daniel Ellsberg to those with modern equivalents of the Pentagon Papers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}