{"id":196412,"date":"2008-04-29T18:17:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-29T23:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/29\/the-rule-of-men-not-the-rule-of-law\/"},"modified":"2008-04-29T18:17:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-29T23:17:00","slug":"the-rule-of-men-not-the-rule-of-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/29\/the-rule-of-men-not-the-rule-of-law\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rule of Men, Not the Rule of Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We now see some letters from Bush and His Evil Minions<sup>\u2122<\/sup> to Congress saying <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/04\/27\/washington\/27intel.html?_r=1&amp;hp=&amp;adxnnl=1&amp;oref=slogin&amp;adxnnlx=1209384261-yLSR6p\/PCM3c4HFC3n01jg\">that they could torture who they wanted whenever they wanted<\/a>, because they were motivated by a noble cause, because their intent was to prevent terrorism, &#8220;rather than for the purpose of humiliation or abuse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think that a single nation among the torturers has ever adopted it as a technique because it gave them the jollies<sup>*<\/sup>, they have done for precisely the reasons that you give.  They wanted information, and to prevent acts that they deemed lawless.<\/p>\n<p>We need to send these folks to the Hague for a fair trial in 2009.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">Dick Cheney excepted, of course.  It gives him a stiffie.<\/span><sup>\u2020<\/sup><br \/><sup>\u2020<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">Apologies for that mental image.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We now see some letters from Bush and His Evil Minions\u2122 to Congress saying that they could torture who they wanted whenever they wanted, because they were motivated by a noble cause, because their intent was to prevent terrorism, &#8220;rather than for the purpose of humiliation or abuse.&#8221; I don&#8217;t think that a single nation &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1032,1168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes-against-humanity","category-torture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196412"}],"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=196412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}