{"id":963,"date":"2013-02-05T07:47:41","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T15:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=963"},"modified":"2013-02-05T08:10:14","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T16:10:14","slug":"now-just-where-does-this-logic-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=963","title":{"rendered":"Now Just Where Does This Logic Lead?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/justice-dept-memo-justifies-killing-americans-overseas-if-they-pose-imminent-threat\/2013\/02\/05\/44e90920-6f5a-11e2-8b8d-e0b59a1b8e2a_story.html\">OK to kill Americans extrajudicially overseas<\/a>, not because of any <em>specific<\/em> evidence they are planning to launch attacks, but simply because they are part of an organization which is &#8220;continually&#8221; planning attacks. (Which is not to imply that extrajudicial executions of <em>anyone<\/em> are <em>ever<\/em> morally justifiable, just pointing out the ever-slipping standards.)<\/p>\n<p>Well all righty now.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, just when is the President planning his next overseas trip, anyhow?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> full document <a href=\"http:\/\/msnbcmedia.msn.com\/i\/msnbc\/sections\/news\/020413_DOJ_White_Paper.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, it&#8217;s OK to kill Americans extrajudicially overseas, not because of any specific evidence they are planning to launch attacks, but simply because they are part of an organization which is &#8220;continually&#8221; planning attacks. (Which is not to imply that extrajudicial executions of anyone are ever morally justifiable, just pointing out the ever-slipping standards.) Well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-ghouls","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}