{"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_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-1138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","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; Blog &#8211; OpenCongress","author":"aslam","date":"August 5, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & LibertiesUnder the title the \u201cProtecting Children from Internet Pornographers Act\u201d, Congress is advancing legislation that would make it easier for law enforcement to access information about the online activities of all Americans, regardless of whether or not they are suspected of having committed a crime.Show\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1293,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/12\/12\/blacklist-bills-ripe-for-abuse-part-ii-expansion\/","url_meta":{"origin":1138,"position":1},"title":"Blacklist Bills Ripe for Abuse Part II: Expansion of Government Powers | Electronic Frontier Foundation","author":"aslam","date":"December 12, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & Liberties\u2026how the Justice Department and private companies have already been going after domain names seizures, without due process, and how the Stop Internet Piracy Act (SOPA) and PROTECT-IP (PIPA) will make this much easier.Via eff.org","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":74,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2017\/01\/22\/of-technocrats-and-black-blocs\/","url_meta":{"origin":1138,"position":2},"title":"Of technocrats and black blocs.","author":"aslam","date":"January 22, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"This, about Dubya\u2019s America, remains a lesson yet to be learned in today\u2019s post-Dem America. 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