{"id":2286,"date":"2007-08-18T08:35:46","date_gmt":"2007-08-18T13:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2286"},"modified":"2007-08-24T20:52:44","modified_gmt":"2007-08-25T01:52:44","slug":"padilla-case-a-source-of-deep-shame-for-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2286","title":{"rendered":"Padilla Case a Source of Deep Shame for America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Alan Bock, Antiwar.com, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/bock\/?articleid=11466\">18 August 2007<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><font size=\"7\">T<\/font><\/strong>he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/08\/17\/us\/17padilla.html\">news story in the <em>New York Times<\/em><\/a> actually painted the conviction Thursday of terrorism suspect Jose Padilla as &#8220;a significant victory for the Bush administration.&#8221; The <em>L.A. Times<\/em> suggested something rather similar.  It was far from that. If anything, it was a repudiation of the way the administration handled his case. But that doesn&#8217;t begin to capture the deep shame (or anger)    Americans should feel at the way the government handled the case.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s something of a textbook illustration of how war, declared or undeclared, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Neither-Liberty-nor-Safety-Independent\/dp\/1598130129\/ref=sr_1_1\/102-1515455-3378511?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1187395078&amp;sr=1-1\">Robert    Higgs <\/a>explained in detail in his classic book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Crisis-Leviathan-Critical-Government-Institute\/dp\/019505900X\/antiwarbookstore\/\"><em>Crisis    and Leviathan<\/em>,<\/a> not only leads to government bloat, but to undermining the kinds of civil and other liberties and fair-minded execution of justice on which this country used to pride itself.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/bock\/?articleid=11466\">Read the essay<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Bock, Antiwar.com, 18 August 2007 The news story in the New York Times actually painted the conviction Thursday of terrorism suspect Jose Padilla as &#8220;a significant victory for the Bush administration.&#8221; The L.A. Times suggested something rather similar. It &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2286\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-AS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}