{"id":197637,"date":"2008-01-21T17:36:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-21T22:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/21\/canadian-conservatives-have-no-balls\/"},"modified":"2008-01-21T17:36:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-21T22:36:00","slug":"canadian-conservatives-have-no-balls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/21\/canadian-conservatives-have-no-balls\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Conservatives Have No Balls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it appears that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/world\/canada\/articles\/2008\/01\/19\/canada_will_remove_us_from_document_that_lists_countries_where_prisoners_risk_possible_torture\/?rss_id=Boston.com+--+Latest+news\">Canadian Foreign Ministry will rewrite its training manual<\/a> so that the United States will no longer be listed as a nation that tortures.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We find it to be offensive for us to be on the same list with countries such as Iran and China. Quite frankly it&#8217;s absurd,&#8221; U.S. Ambassador David Wilkins told The Associated Press on Friday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More absurd is that the United States does routinely torture people in its custody, and routinely sends people to other nations to be tortured.<\/p>\n<p>I want my country back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it appears that the Canadian Foreign Ministry will rewrite its training manual so that the United States will no longer be listed as a nation that tortures. &#8220;We find it to be offensive for us to be on the same list with countries such as Iran and China. Quite frankly it&#8217;s absurd,&#8221; U.S. Ambassador &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1032,964,1168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes-against-humanity","category-foreign-relations","category-torture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197637"}],"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=197637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}