{"id":195718,"date":"2008-06-19T17:22:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-19T22:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/19\/when-you-think-that-they-can-go-no-lower\/"},"modified":"2008-06-19T17:22:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-19T22:22:00","slug":"when-you-think-that-they-can-go-no-lower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/19\/when-you-think-that-they-can-go-no-lower\/","title":{"rendered":"When You Think That They Can Go No Lower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They continue to surprise&#8230;in a bad way.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone&#8217;s poster child for mercenaries, Blackwater USA, is now asserting that they bear no culpability for a plane crash in which their under trained and reckless employees killed US soldiers when they crashed into a mountain top in Afghanistan because the law of the land there is Sharia, and &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/917\/story\/1113022.html\">Sharia law does not hold a company responsible for the actions of employees performed within the course of their work<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thats right, they are trying to apply religious law to a civil suit.<\/p>\n<p>I have an idea.  Let&#8217;s send Eric Prince to Afghanistan to stand trial there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They continue to surprise&#8230;in a bad way. Everyone&#8217;s poster child for mercenaries, Blackwater USA, is now asserting that they bear no culpability for a plane crash in which their under trained and reckless employees killed US soldiers when they crashed into a mountain top in Afghanistan because the law of the land there is Sharia, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[969,1051,1179,1006,1021],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evil","category-hypocrisy","category-mercenaries","category-military","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195718"}],"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=195718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}