{"id":3275,"date":"2013-01-24T10:26:02","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T15:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=3275"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:10:44","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:10:44","slug":"feds-see-red-seize-funds-from-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2013\/01\/24\/feds-see-red-seize-funds-from-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Feds see red, seize funds from book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mhpbooks.com\/feds-see-red-and-seize-funds-from-book\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/armyofgod-cover-final.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A writer&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mhpbooks.com\/feds-see-red-and-seize-funds-from-book\/\">book advance was seized by the government<\/a>, because the title of his book is the same as a terrorist organization.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>David Axe<\/strong> is a freelance reporter and author of the graphic novel <em>Army of God<\/em>, which details the aggressive and violent exploits of\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Joseph Kony<\/strong>, the leader of Central Africa\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s\u00c2\u00a0Lord\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Resistance Army rebel group.<\/p>\n<p>Kony, you probably know, is accused of terrorizing Ugandan civilians and using children as soldiers and sex slaves; he was the subject of <a href=\"http:\/\/knowyourmeme.com\/memes\/events\/kony-2012\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Kony 2012<\/strong><\/a>, an online campaign designed to remove him from power before the end of 2012.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.warisboring.com\/2012\/12\/21\/my-new-graphic-novel-is-a-terrorist-organization\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>War is Boring<\/em><\/a>,\u00c2\u00a0a collective (including Axe) of citizen journalists with an interest in world and national security,\u00c2\u00a0the federal office of Foreign Assets Control confiscated the majority of <em>Army of God\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s<\/em> advance payment, claiming it was being used to fund a terrorist organization.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mhpbooks.com\/feds-see-red-and-seize-funds-from-book\/\">Feds see red, seize funds from book \u00c2\u00bb MobyLives<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A writer&#8217;s book advance was seized by the government, because the title of his book is the same as a terrorist organization.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[3],"tags":[757,756,755,754,758,759,760],"class_list":["post-3275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","tag-book-advance","tag-david-axe","tag-kony","tag-oh-my","tag-seizure","tag-terrorism","tag-terrorist-organizations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3275"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9989,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3275\/revisions\/9989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}