{"id":9368,"date":"2011-12-23T19:59:31","date_gmt":"2011-12-24T00:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=9368"},"modified":"2011-12-23T20:02:29","modified_gmt":"2011-12-24T01:02:29","slug":"for-christmas-your-government-will-explain-why-its-legal-to-kill-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/12\/23\/for-christmas-your-government-will-explain-why-its-legal-to-kill-you\/","title":{"rendered":"For Christmas, Your Government Will Explain Why It&#8217;s Legal to Kill You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>Lowering the Bar<\/em> whose motto is &#8220;Legal humor. Seriously.&#8221; comes the article <a title=\"Lowering The Bar article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.loweringthebar.net\/2011\/12\/for-christmas-your-government-will-explain.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>For Christmas, Your Government Will Explain Why It&#8217;s Legal to Kill You<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Summary:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The government dropped a bomb on a U.S. citizen,<\/li>\n<li>who, though a total dick and probably a criminal, may have been engaged only in propaganda,<\/li>\n<li>which, though despicable, is generally protected by the First Amendment;<\/li>\n<li>it did so without a trial or even an indictment (that we know of),<\/li>\n<li>based at least in part on evidence it says it has but won&#8217;t show anyone,<\/li>\n<li>and on a legal argument it has apparently made but won&#8217;t show anyone,<\/li>\n<li>and the very existence of which it will not confirm or deny;<\/li>\n<li>although don&#8217;t worry, because the C.I.A. would never kill an American without having somebody do a memo first;<\/li>\n<li>and this is the &#8220;most transparent administration ever&#8221;;<\/li>\n<li>currently run by a Nobel Peace Prize winner.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Merry Christmas!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks again to RogerG for posting this item on his Facebook page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Lowering the Bar whose motto is &#8220;Legal humor. Seriously.&#8221; comes the article For Christmas, Your Government Will Explain Why It&#8217;s Legal to Kill You. Summary: The government dropped a bomb on a U.S. citizen, who, though a total dick and probably a criminal, may have been engaged only in propaganda, which, though despicable, is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9368","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9368"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9372,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9368\/revisions\/9372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}