{"id":655,"date":"2006-09-29T08:47:01","date_gmt":"2006-09-29T08:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/09\/29\/the-torture-bill\/"},"modified":"2006-09-29T08:47:01","modified_gmt":"2006-09-29T08:47:01","slug":"the-torture-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/09\/29\/the-torture-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"The Torture Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Scalzi <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scalzi.com\/whatever\/004498.html\">saves me some typing<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m proud to be an American, but I&#8217;m <i>tired<\/i> of being ashamed of my government. I&#8217;m tired of having to count the seconds until this bilious waste of a president is shoved out the door in January of 2009. I&#8217;m tired of hoping that some members of the president&#8217;s political party might actually put principle over political expedience, particularly when it concerns the Constitution. And I&#8217;m tired of waiting for the opposing party to actually grow a goddamned spine and <i>become<\/i> an opposing party. I&#8217;m tired of wondering why the people we elect to lead us don&#8217;t seem to actually <i>understand<\/i> what it means to be American, and to be moral, and to do what it right for us. And I&#8217;m tired of having to look so hard for genuine leadership as opposed to the sham idiot version we have now. I feel like Diogenes, and I&#8217;m coming up short. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m tired of being led by moral cowards. I want better for myself, and for my country.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>See also <a href=\"http:\/\/cosmicvariance.com\/2006\/09\/28\/torture-and-permanent-detention-bill-passes\/\">Sean Carroll<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s all I&#8217;m going to say about that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Scalzi saves me some typing: I&#8217;m proud to be an American, but I&#8217;m tired of being ashamed of my government. I&#8217;m tired of having to count the seconds until this bilious waste of a president is shoved out the door in January of 2009. I&#8217;m tired of hoping that some members of the president&#8217;s&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/09\/29\/the-torture-bill\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Torture Bill<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}