{"id":190379,"date":"2009-12-04T18:12:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T23:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/12\/04\/we-luv-torture\/"},"modified":"2009-12-04T18:12:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-04T23:12:00","slug":"we-luv-torture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/12\/04\/we-luv-torture\/","title":{"rendered":"We Luv Torture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/salon.com\/news\/opinion\/glenn_greenwald\/2009\/12\/03\/torture\">Glenn Greenwald<\/a> points us to a <a href=\"http:\/\/people-press.org\/report\/569\/americas-place-in-the-world\">Pew Research Center survey<\/a> that shows that the citizens of the United States are the most supportive of torture of any of the nationalities tested.<\/p>\n<p>We are, therefore, a bunch of cowardly sadists, and maybe Liberace was right, and I should make aliyah to Israel.<\/p>\n<p>I do know that I am thoroughly disgusted at this, and I think that people are missing something:  When these reservists and national guardsman come home, some of them will be in law enforcement, and they will bring torture with them.<\/p>\n<p>Expect your next traffic stop to come with stress positions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glenn Greenwald points us to a Pew Research Center survey that shows that the citizens of the United States are the most supportive of torture of any of the nationalities tested. We are, therefore, a bunch of cowardly sadists, and maybe Liberace was right, and I should make aliyah to Israel. I do know that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1032,969,1091,1168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes-against-humanity","category-evil","category-polls","category-torture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190379"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}