{"id":86,"date":"2004-09-17T13:29:52","date_gmt":"2004-09-17T13:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2004\/09\/17\/making-torture-fun\/"},"modified":"2004-09-17T13:29:52","modified_gmt":"2004-09-17T13:29:52","slug":"making-torture-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2004\/09\/making-torture-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Making torture fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has to be said, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloggerheads.com\">Manic<\/a> has a great talent for getting things <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloggerheads.com\/abu_ghraib\/\">spot on<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>1. The War on Terror is a lie that will not protect you from terrorists<br \/>\n2. The War on Terror is being used to curb civil liberties and human rights<br \/>\n3. The War on Terror has been used by the Bush administration to justify torture<br \/>\n4. Including the torture of people who aren&#8217;t terrorists<br \/>\n5. One day, it will be you with a bag on your head, and you&#8217;ll wonder how it all came to be<\/p>\n<p><b>A Plea To Americans<\/b><\/p>\n<p>You came in rather late, but thanks for saving our asses in WW1.<\/p>\n<p>Again with the lateness, but you did it again in WW2. It&#8217;s appreciated.<\/p>\n<p>Now, if it&#8217;s not too much trouble, we need you to save us from WW3.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s going to take more than your vote. You also have to reach out to the people around you and show them what&#8217;s really going on. And it&#8217;s not going to be easy.<\/p>\n<p><i>Tim Ireland, 17th September 2004<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has to be said, Manic has a great talent for getting things spot on: 1. The War on Terror is a lie that will not protect you from terrorists 2. The War on Terror is being used to curb &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2004\/09\/making-torture-fun\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}