{"id":15670,"date":"2009-11-18T13:45:02","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T18:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=15670"},"modified":"2009-11-18T13:45:02","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T18:45:02","slug":"then-why-have-a-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=15670","title":{"rendered":"Then why have a trial?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now I&#8217;ve been told for years that actually trying the terrorists we&#8217;re holding in Guantanamo will improve the world&#8217;s perception of our justice system. That the world now thinks we&#8217;re a cruel nation and unless we have a fair trial, the world thinks we&#8217;re hypocrites.<\/p>\n<p>How does our national leader declaring a defendant guilty and predicting his death penalty conviction improve the perception of our justice system?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/ksm-conviction.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/ksm-conviction.jpg\" alt=\"ksm-conviction\" title=\"ksm-conviction\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15671\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I think KSM is guilty and deserves the death penalty &#8211; but I&#8217;m a lowly blogger, not a Harvard-trained, uber-smart lawyer who leads the country. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now I&#8217;ve been told for years that actually trying the terrorists we&#8217;re holding in Guantanamo will &hellip; <a title=\"Then why have a trial?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=15670\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Then why have a trial?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-legal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}