{"id":20,"date":"2007-06-12T06:01:04","date_gmt":"2007-06-12T13:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/2007\/06\/12\/this-is-not-my-america\/"},"modified":"2024-07-02T18:38:37","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T01:38:37","slug":"this-is-not-my-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/grimace-and-giggle\/opinions-on-politics-culture-society\/this-is-not-my-america\/","title":{"rendered":"This is NOT my America"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Interrogators threatened to send him to Egypt or Saudi Arabia, the lawsuit said, \u201cwhere, they told him, he would be tortured and sodomized and where his wife would be raped in front of him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NYTimes June 12, 2007, <span class=\"headlineWrapper\"><strong>Judges Say U.S. Can\u2019t Hold Man As \u2018Combatant\u2019<\/strong><\/span><font size=\"2\">By ADAM LIPTAK<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Want to know what makes me, a patriot, a Constitutionalist, ashamed? That this sort of thing can even be conceived, much less carried out&#8230;and sanctioned by my America.\u00a0 My America has turned into &#8220;his Amerika&#8221; &#8212; a Little Tyrant&#8217;s Personal Dictatorship.\u00a0 <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">I&#8217;m ashamed to be an American &#8212; ASHAMED.\u00a0 &#8230;No.\u00a0 That&#8217;s not quite right.\u00a0 Americans are all right, no worse and sometimes a lot better than people from other cultures and countries.\u00a0 However, I am ashamed of some Americans &#8212; Bush and Cheney, Rumsfeld and Rove, and everyone who enabled them.\u00a0 I&#8217;m certainly embarrassed that Americans have allowed our country&#8217;s most precious foundations to be abrogated on the insolent, logically erroneous, petulantly willful demands of an administration that used 911 as a personal stage to undermine what made us the greatest nation ever conceived by man &#8212; the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Imagine a country that denies the right of Habeas Corpus.\u00a0 That&#8217;s our America.\u00a0 I shuddered.\u00a0 The Patriot Act? I was in shock that Congress sanctioned this.\u00a0 Preemptive war?\u00a0 Aghast.\u00a0 And &#8220;We, the People&#8221; allowed this, did nothing to stop it.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">This is NOT my America.\u00a0 Be ashamed.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interrogators threatened to send him to Egypt or Saudi Arabia, the lawsuit said, \u201cwhere, they told him, he would be tortured and sodomized and where his wife would be raped in front of him.\u201d NYTimes June 12, 2007, Judges Say U.S. Can\u2019t Hold Man As \u2018Combatant\u2019By ADAM LIPTAK Want to know what makes me, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3377,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/3377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}