{"id":1355,"date":"2006-09-30T15:12:37","date_gmt":"2006-09-30T15:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1355"},"modified":"2006-09-30T15:12:37","modified_gmt":"2006-09-30T15:12:37","slug":"the_madness_of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1355","title":{"rendered":"The Madness Of King George"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to the new torture and detention bill that is about to be signed into law<\/a>, my mother, who is not a citizen but has lived in this country for over thirty years, could be hauled away by the feds on trumped-up terrorism charges without any judicial recourse for challenging the legality of her detention.  I’m using hyperbole to prove a point; this law is a dangerous encroachment on established principles of due process and fundamental fairness in our judicial system.  The suspension of habeas corpus may sound like some obscure topic for a law school seminar, but it’s not called the Great Writ<\/a> for nothing.  Since feudal times, the right of habeas corpus has been one of the most effective safeguards against authoritarian abuses of power and unlawful detentions.  <\/p>\n

We are teetering on the edge of a precipice.  Most of you who know me know that I’m not given to histrionics, but I genuinely fear for the future of our country.  I’m deeply disappointed in our political leaders for passing such reactionary legislation.  I’m deeply disappointed in our media for doing such a piss-poor job with explaining exactly how this law takes away so many long-cherished rights and creates two vastly unequal systems of criminal justice.  <\/p>\n

And I can’t help but thinking that things will continue to get much worse before they get better.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to the new torture and detention bill that is about to be signed into law, my mother, who is not a citizen but has lived in this country for over thirty years, could be hauled away by the feds on trumped-up terrorism charges without any judicial recourse for challenging the legality of her detention.  […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","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":["post-1355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-lR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}