{"id":1991,"date":"2012-01-23T08:44:47","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T13:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/?p=1991"},"modified":"2012-08-25T13:35:29","modified_gmt":"2012-08-25T17:35:29","slug":"a-budding-police-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2012\/01\/a-budding-police-state.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;A Budding Police State&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Human Rights Watch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2012\/01\/22\/iraq-intensifying-crackdown-free-speech-protests\">reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Iraq is quickly slipping back into authoritarianism as its security forces abuse protesters, harass journalists, and torture detainees. Despite U.S. government assurances that it helped create a stable democracy, the reality is that it left behind a budding police state.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014\u00a0Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East and North Africa director of Human Rights Watch<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I suppose that&#8217;s not the same thing as the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2005\/12\/the_sunni_genocide.html\">Sunni genocide<\/a>\u00a0or the death squad massacres <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2005\/12\/hidden_in_plain_sight.html\">hidden in plain sight<\/a>\u00a0or the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2006\/12\/loud_whispers.html\">loud whispers<\/a>,\u00a0which we blogged about in 2005 and 2006\u00a0. But it&#8217;s a reminder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human Rights Watch reports: Iraq is quickly slipping back into authoritarianism as its security forces abuse protesters, harass journalists, and torture detainees. Despite U.S. government assurances that it helped create a stable democracy, the reality is that it left behind a budding police state. \u2014\u00a0Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East and North Africa director of Human [&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":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1991","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-political-culture","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-w7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991","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=1991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}