{"id":68,"date":"2006-09-29T12:15:26","date_gmt":"2006-09-29T15:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/index.php\/2006\/09\/29\/this-is-not-funny\/"},"modified":"2006-09-29T12:15:26","modified_gmt":"2006-09-29T15:15:26","slug":"this-is-not-funny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/2006\/this-is-not-funny","title":{"rendered":"This is not funny."},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image67\" alt=\"Constitution, revised\" src=\"http:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/constitution,%20revised.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When I was in school, there were two things that I was told made America the best country in the world: we&#8217;d never waged a war on anyone aggressively (which was already easily debatable at the time, but still actually debatable and not a transparent lie) and you couldn&#8217;t be imprisoned without the due process of arrest, accusation, speedy trial, and conviction.<\/p>\n<p>We were told that this is because the Constitution of the United States is a flexible but  inviolable document subject to representative review and judicial interpretation that stemmed from that due process.<\/p>\n<p>So, let&#8217;s take count:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Unjust, unprovoked, and morally bankrupt war? You betcha.<\/li>\n<li>Lack of due process? <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/query\/z?c109:S.+3930:\">Holy shit.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, this is designed to get terrorists, right? And does it define what a terrorist is, and how we can make sure that we&#8217;ve got one when we do?<\/p>\n<p>Well, we&#8217;re not allowed to know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was in school, there were two things that I was told made America the best country in the world: we&#8217;d never waged a war on anyone aggressively (which was already easily debatable at the time, but still actually debatable and not a transparent lie) and you couldn&#8217;t be imprisoned without the due process &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/2006\/this-is-not-funny\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;This is not funny.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}