{"id":2183,"date":"2007-06-13T08:17:45","date_gmt":"2007-06-13T14:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/remembering-duhbya-spit-on-the-ground\/"},"modified":"2007-06-13T08:17:45","modified_gmt":"2007-06-13T14:17:45","slug":"remembering-duhbya-spit-on-the-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/remembering-duhbya-spit-on-the-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Duhbya (spit on the ground)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eugene Robinson &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/06\/11\/AR2007061101856.html\">Fleeting Glory in Albania<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The report was done for the Council of Europe by Swiss legislator Dick Marty, and its opening paragraph is worth quoting at length:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;What was previously just a set of allegations is now proven: <strong class=\"highlight\"><em>large numbers<\/em> of people have been abducted from various locations across the world<\/strong> and transferred to countries where they have been <strong class=\"highlight\">persecuted<\/strong> and where it is known that <strong class=\"highlight\">torture is common practice<\/strong>. Others have been held in arbitrary detention, without any precise charges leveled against them and without any judicial oversight. . . . Still others have simply disappeared for indefinite periods and have been held in secret prisons, including in member states of the Council of Europe.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This, I am convinced, is how future generations will remember George W. Bush: as the president who abandoned our traditional concepts of justice and human rights, choosing instead a program of state-sponsored kidnapping, arbitrary detention and abusive interrogation techniques such as &#8220;waterboarding.&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>We will remember this whole misguided administration for deciding to wage the fight against terrorism in a manner that not only mocks our nation&#8217;s values but also draws new recruits to the anti-American cause. We will remember this White House for unwittingly helping the terrorist cause perpetuate itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eugene Robinson &#8211; Fleeting Glory in Albania The report was done for the Council of Europe by Swiss legislator Dick Marty, and its opening paragraph is worth quoting at length: &#8220;What was previously just a set of allegations is now proven: large numbers of people have been abducted from various locations across the world and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/remembering-duhbya-spit-on-the-ground\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Remembering Duhbya (spit on the ground)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}