{"id":35235,"date":"2013-04-22T13:59:09","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T17:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=35235"},"modified":"2013-04-22T13:59:57","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T17:59:57","slug":"white-house-boston-bomber-wont-be-tried-as-enemy-combatant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35235","title":{"rendered":"White House: Boston bomber won&#8217;t be tried as &#8220;enemy combatant&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2013\/apr\/22\/boston-marathon-bombing-suspect-wont-be-tried-enem\/\">The Washington Times<\/a> reports that Jay Carney told the media today that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the fellow who bombed the Boston Marathon and led the Boston area police on a merry chase reminiscent of the popular Fox series &#8220;24&#8221;, won&#8217;t be tried as an &#8220;enemy combatant&#8221; even though he is an &#8220;enemy combatant&#8221; in every sense of the word.<\/p>\n<p>So that means a trial, but the court of public opinion has already determined that he&#8217;s innocent. <a href=\"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/04\/21\/pathetic-crazies-start-freejahar-hashtag-for-terror-suspect-dzhokhar-tsarnaev-sanity-hijacks-it\/\">Twitchy<\/a> tells us about the Twitter hash tag for #FreeJahar and apparently all the chicks dig him. Some empty headed &#8220;artist&#8221; somewhere named Amanda Palmer has written &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/amandapalmer.net\/blog\/20130421\/\">A Poem For Dzhokhar<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mike Lillis of <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/295189-report-bombing-suspects-not-licensed-to-own-guns#ixzz2R9aLSDwS\">The Hill<\/a> predicts that, because laws prohibited prevented the Tsarnaev from legally owning guns, we obviously need more laws;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The news that the suspects were not authorized to own firearms will likely add fuel to calls for tougher gun laws \u2013 an issue that was put on the back-burner last week after the Senate blocked the central elements of a gun-control package backed by President Obama.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That was obvious from the start &#8211; we need more laws that don&#8217;t work. Make some more criminals, until we&#8217;re all criminals. How Lillis got there from her, I&#8217;ll never know. The trial will be a joke. <\/p>\n<p>But, Leaky Leahy is concerned because the Republicans are &#8220;exploiting&#8221; the incident to block immigration reform, says the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/leahy-gop-trying-to-exploit-boston-bombings-to-stop-immigration-reform\/2013\/04\/22\/d523c794-ab57-11e2-a8b9-2a63d75b5459_story.html?hpid=z3\">Washington Post<\/a>. So there&#8217;s something for everyone to exploit for their own purposes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Times reports that Jay Carney told the media today that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the fellow &hellip; <a title=\"White House: Boston bomber won&#8217;t be tried as &#8220;enemy combatant&#8221;\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35235\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">White House: Boston bomber won&#8217;t be tried as &#8220;enemy combatant&#8221;<\/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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35235","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=35235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}