{"id":919,"date":"2006-10-18T13:14:01","date_gmt":"2006-10-18T05:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=919"},"modified":"2006-10-18T13:18:22","modified_gmt":"2006-10-18T05:18:22","slug":"917-of-the-day-part-of-liberty-died-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=919","title":{"rendered":"[917] Of the day part of liberty died in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/us\/AP-Bush-Terrorism.html\">New York Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; Some of the most notorious names in the war on terror are headed toward prosecution after President Bush signed a law Tuesday authorizing military trials of terrorism suspects.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation also eliminates some of the rights defendants are usually guaranteed under U.S. law, and it authorizes continued harsh interrogations of terror suspects.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Civil libertarians and leading Democrats decried the law as a violation of American values. The American Civil Liberties Union said it was &#8221;one of the worst civil liberties measures ever enacted in American history.&#8221; Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold of Wisconsin said, &#8221;We will look back on this day as a stain on our nation&#8217;s history.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;It allows the government to seize individuals on American soil and detain them indefinitely with no opportunity to challenge their detention in court,&#8221; Feingold said. &#8221;And the new law would permit an individual to be convicted on the basis of coerced testimony and even allow someone convicted under these rules to be put to death.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Remember <a href=\"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=896\">Lex Gabina<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the New York Times: WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; Some of the most notorious names in the war on terror are headed toward prosecution after President Bush signed a law Tuesday authorizing military trials of terrorism suspects. The legislation also eliminates some of the rights defendants are usually guaranteed under U.S. law, and it authorizes continued [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}