{"id":1665,"date":"2009-05-14T21:53:05","date_gmt":"2009-05-15T04:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/2009\/05\/14\/guatemala-imprisons-man-for-twitter-suggestion-that-people-withdraw-their-money-from-bank\/"},"modified":"2009-05-14T22:06:08","modified_gmt":"2009-05-15T05:06:08","slug":"guatemala-imprisons-man-for-twitter-suggestion-that-people-withdraw-their-money-from-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2009\/05\/14\/guatemala-imprisons-man-for-twitter-suggestion-that-people-withdraw-their-money-from-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"Guatemala Imprisons Man for Twitter Suggestion that People Withdraw Their Money From Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtube-video\"><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xaSZNzUyquM\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xaSZNzUyquM\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n<p>The government of Guatemala has arrested and imprisoned a man named <em>Jean Anleu Fern\u00e1ndez<\/em> who <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jeanfer\/statuses\/1776217866\">posted on Twitter yesterday<\/a> the following message: <em>&#8220;The first action people should take is to remove cash from Banrural, and break the banks of corrupt people. #escandalogt&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>His Twitter message was in response to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/world\/article\/0,8599,1898360,00.html\">suspected involvement of the Guatemalan president in the recent assassination of a prominent lawyer<\/a> who was investigating government corruption.\u00a0 What we are seeing here is the new power of words.\u00a0 Their power to take down a government.\u00a0 The outrageous action of Guatemala has created a worldwide eruption of blog and Twitter outrage in which Anleu\u00a0Fern\u00e1ndez&#8217; original message is being reproduced countless times.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2009\/05\/14\/guatemala-el-efecto.html\">Boing Boing is doing excellent coverage of this story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I agree with Mr. Anleu Fern\u00e1ndez in his suggestion that people withdraw their money from a bank that people suspect of corruption.\u00a0 I would withdraw my money if I were in Guatemala.\u00a0 I also think the people should probably withdraw themselves from Guatemala if at all possible since it is quite obviously moving toward total collapse.\u00a0 If Guatemala thinks I&#8217;m creating panic, then I would suggest that people actually run screaming from the country because panic is exactly what should be happening there.\u00a0 When police start arresting people for telling other people to pull money out of a bank, then it&#8217;s all over.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=18ba6541-c261-8ebd-964e-0cdfe2f186cb\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government of Guatemala has arrested and imprisoned a man named Jean Anleu Fern\u00e1ndez who posted on Twitter yesterday the following message: &#8220;The first action people should take is to remove cash from Banrural, and break the banks of corrupt people. #escandalogt&#8221; His Twitter message was in response to the suspected involvement of the Guatemalan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[298,163,209],"tags":[379,378,380,381],"class_list":["post-1665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-opinion","category-web","tag-corruption","tag-guatemala","tag-police","tag-twitter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1665"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1672,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665\/revisions\/1672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}