{"id":1801,"date":"2010-09-30T08:19:24","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T15:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2010\/09\/crimes_are_crimes\/"},"modified":"2010-09-30T08:19:24","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T15:19:24","slug":"crimes_are_crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2010\/09\/crimes_are_crimes.html","title":{"rendered":"Crimes Are Crimes Are Crimes Are Crimes &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are all <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/09\/30\/opinion\/30thu1.html?_r=1&#038;ref=opinion\">BananaRepublicans<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Obama has claimed the right to assassinate American citizens whom he suspects of &#8220;terrorism,&#8221; merely on the grounds of his own suspicion or that of the CIA, something Bush never claimed publicly.&#8221; <em>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcantwait.net\/index.php\/features-mainmenu-220\/take-action\/6476-welcome-rolling-stone-readers\">The World Can&#8217;t Wait<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcantwait.net\/index.php\/features-mainmenu-220\/take-action\/6476-welcome-rolling-stone-readers\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt title=\"CRIMES ARE CRIMES No Matter WHO Does Them [The World Can't Wait] CLICK TO DONATE.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/assets_c\/2010\/09\/crimes mugshot button_2-thumb-480x457-17547.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"457\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAlso, &#8220;Obama says that the government can detain you indefinitely, even if you have been exonerated in a trial, and he has publicly floated the idea of &#8216;preventive detention.&#8217; &#8221;<br \/>\nAlso, &#8220;unsurprisingly, the Obama administration has refused to prosecute any members of the Bush regime who are responsible for war crimes, including some who admitted to waterboarding and other forms of torture, thereby making their actions acceptable for him or any future president, Democrat or Republican.&#8221;<br \/>\n<object width=\"480\" height=\"288\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ktjtiRsR3iU?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are all BananaRepublicans. Obama has claimed the right to assassinate American citizens whom he suspects of &#8220;terrorism,&#8221; merely on the grounds of his own suspicion or that of the CIA, something Bush never claimed publicly.&#8221; &#8212; The World Can&#8217;t Wait Also, &#8220;Obama says that the government can detain you indefinitely, even if you have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","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":{"0":"post-1801","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-t3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}