{"id":103,"date":"2008-07-13T13:59:35","date_gmt":"2008-07-13T20:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/xsml\/archives\/103"},"modified":"2008-07-13T13:59:35","modified_gmt":"2008-07-13T20:59:35","slug":"politics-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2008\/07\/13\/politics-18\/","title":{"rendered":"politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is cursory judgment but no less informed than much of what I hear from pundits on television.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/07\/13\/opinion\/13rich.html?_r=1&#038;ref=opinion&#038;pagewanted=print&#038;oref=slogin\">this book review<\/a>, cited by Matthew Yglesias, the new book by Jane Mayer on America&#8217;s descent into the ranks of states that imprison without due process and torture without aim is:<\/p>\n<ol>\n1) over-compensation by the Vice President and his office for not having prevented the attacks of 9\/11\/2001<\/p>\n<p>2) eliciting so many false confessions and violating so many laws as to sabotage countless investigations and prosecutions<\/p>\n<p>3) responsible for producing some of the bad intelligence used to justify the invasion of and war in Iraq<\/p>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Which makes me think: elections are so incredibly important. Any voter who is flip about and\/or unwilling to think out their position on elections is, in part, as guilty of the crimes spelled out above as the mad men who personally ordered them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is cursory judgment but no less informed than much of what I hear from pundits on television. According to this book review, cited by Matthew Yglesias, the new book by Jane Mayer on America&#8217;s descent into the ranks of states that imprison without due process and torture without aim is: 1) over-compensation by the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}