{"id":1138,"date":"2012-01-26T00:52:22","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T00:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2012\/01\/26\/why-we-should-be-glad-the-haditha-massacre-marine\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:29:17","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:29:17","slug":"why-we-should-be-glad-the-haditha-massacre-marine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2012\/01\/26\/why-we-should-be-glad-the-haditha-massacre-marine\/","title":{"rendered":"Why We Should Be Glad the Haditha Massacre Marine Got No Jail Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a style=\"font-weight:bold;font-size:16px\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/1054337684\/why-we-should-be-glad-the-haditha-massacre-marine-got-no-jail-time\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scoop.it<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rights &amp; Liberties<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/1054337684\/why-we-should-be-glad-the-haditha-massacre-marine-got-no-jail-time\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.scoop.it\/sNiNFYwc5EXdRwPPUE9_3Dl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBXEejxNn4ZJNZ2ss5Ku7Cxt\" \/><\/a><br \/>If we were to lower the bar to make it easier to convict those we &ldquo;know&rdquo; are guilty, we would also make it easier to unjustly imprison the innocent.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/international\/archive\/2012\/01\/why-we-should-be-glad-the-haditha-massacre-marine-got-no-jail-time\/251993\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Via theatlantic.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Scoop.it &#8211; Rights &amp; LibertiesIf we were to lower the bar to make it easier to convict those we &ldquo;know&rdquo; are guilty, we would also make it easier to unjustly imprison the innocent.Via theatlantic.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1509,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/08\/05\/house-advances-internet-surveillance-bill-blog\/","url_meta":{"origin":1138,"position":0},"title":"House Advances Internet Surveillance Bill &#8211; 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