{"id":411,"date":"2010-04-21T08:45:48","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T12:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/?p=411"},"modified":"2010-04-21T08:45:51","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T12:45:51","slug":"why-no-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/?p=411","title":{"rendered":"Why No Criticism?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/northamerica\/usa\/barackobama\/7564581\/Barack-Obama-orders-killing-of-US-cleric-Anwar-al-Awlaki.html\">Obama ordered an assassination<\/a> of a man his administration claims is a terrorist. That&#8217;s all we have. Someone in the US Government pointing a finger and saying, &#8220;kill that terrorist!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>OK, I&#8217;ll accept the guy probably is a terrorist. He probably is making war on the US and killing him might very well put an end to the further plans he has to kill innocent people. He&#8217;s making war on me and my people, so, yes, he should be a target for the violence of war.<\/p>\n<p>What bothers me is that the justification used &#8211; a statement from the government &#8211; can be used against anyone, anywhere. That&#8217;s not the kind of power I want any government to have. The next bother I have is that the administration is not trying to cloud the issue. It&#8217;s come right out and stated it plans to assassinate this man. When will assassination of leaders hostile to US interests become as open as this?<\/p>\n<p>The arrogance of this declaration is as appalling as its criminality. What is further appalling is that few voices are speaking against this. Those who deplored Bush&#8217;s erosion of civil liberties are silent on this move of Obama&#8217;s. Those who deplore Obama are silent, too, as if they do not wish to indict their darling baby Bush with criticism of this excess of power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama ordered an assassination of a man his administration claims is a terrorist. That&#8217;s all we have. Someone in the US Government pointing a finger and saying, &#8220;kill that terrorist!&#8221; OK, I&#8217;ll accept the guy probably is a terrorist. He probably is making war on the US and killing him might very well put an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":413,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions\/413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}