{"id":112,"date":"2006-10-18T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-18T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/?p=112"},"modified":"2006-10-18T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-18T03:00:00","slug":"legalized-torture-and-the-death-of-the-rights-of-the-accused-american-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/?p=112","title":{"rendered":"Legalized Torture and The Death of The Rights of The Accused&#8230;American Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/\">Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things<\/a>: \u201cThe provisions of Bush\u2019s new torture law mean that Americans have lost the key, constitutional right on which Anglo-American criminal law (and criminal-law procedures in true democracies in general) is founded; that\u2019s the basic right of an individual to know why he or she is being apprehended and detained. Now, technically, as in Stalin\u2019s Soviet Union, Hitler\u2019s Germany, Mao\u2019s China or Pol Pot\u2019s Cambodia, anyone labeled an \u2018enemy combatant\u2019 \u2013 again, by whom; by Bush? \u2013 can be whisked away and never heard from again. That kind of authority, in the hands of corrupt or untruthful politicians, may or may not be an effective tool in some kind of \u2018war on terror,\u2019 but it certainly can be a useful tool when it comes to silencing their opponents.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things: \u201cThe provisions of Bush\u2019s new torture law mean that Americans have lost the key, constitutional right on which Anglo-American criminal law (and criminal-law procedures in true democracies in general) is founded; that\u2019s the basic right of an individual to know why he or she is being apprehended and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}