{"id":907,"date":"2003-11-19T12:52:07","date_gmt":"2003-11-19T19:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/eroded-rights\/"},"modified":"2003-11-19T12:52:07","modified_gmt":"2003-11-19T19:52:07","slug":"eroded-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/eroded-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Eroded rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"'Enemy Combatant' Sham\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/11\/19\/opinion\/19WED3.html?th\">&#8216;Enemy Combatant&#8217;  Sham<\/a> (NYTimes Editorial)<\/p>\n<p>The Bush administration insists that it can hold American citizens in secret as long as it wants, without access to lawyers, simply by calling them &#8221;enemy combatants.&#8221; &#8230; <b>The administration&#8217;s position makes a mockery of the Constitution<\/b> and <b>puts every American&#8217;s liberty at risk<\/b>. It is important that the court strike it down&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Of all the post-Sept. 11 denials of civil liberties, <b>the enemy combatant doctrine is among the worst<\/b>. It gives the president untrammeled authority to lock up Americans merely by asserting that they are part of a terrorist plot. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The framers of the Constitution knew that if the government was allowed to act on those impulses (to detain in secret), <b>the result would be tyranny<\/b>. That is why they built into this nation&#8217;s founding document <b>the very rights the Bush administration is intent on taking away<\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Enemy Combatant&#8217; Sham (NYTimes Editorial) The Bush administration insists that it can hold American citizens in secret as long as it wants, without access to lawyers, simply by calling them &#8221;enemy combatants.&#8221; &#8230; The administration&#8217;s position makes a mockery of the Constitution and puts every American&#8217;s liberty at risk. It is important that the court &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/eroded-rights\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Eroded rights<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907","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=907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}