{"id":3192,"date":"2014-12-18T07:15:18","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T12:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3192"},"modified":"2014-12-18T07:15:19","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T12:15:19","slug":"u-s-torture-debate-underscores-shifting-view-on-personal-liberties-world-cbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3192","title":{"rendered":"U.S. torture debate underscores shifting view on personal liberties – World – CBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"

U.S. torture debate underscores shifting view on personal liberties – World – CBC News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In America, you get a fair shake, or you’re supposed to. Here, you’re governed by law, not the whim of some swinish satrap.<\/span><\/p>\n

America is not a place where peaceful dissent should cost you your freedom, or even your life. Americans don’t live in terror of their security police.<\/p>\n

All of this is arguably less true today than it was 20 years ago; it’s certainly less true since Sept. 11, 2001.<\/p>\n

Strangely, it is America’s conservatives, the people to whom personal liberty is a supreme value, who seem most willing to give it away.<\/p>\n

“If you aren’t doing anything wrong, then you don’t have anything to worry about,” they say, while pushing new powers for law enforcement and the growing surveillance-industrial establishment.<\/p>\n

That, of course, is the cheapjack police-state justification; the sort you hear in countries that are said to be “not ready for democracy.” It is most un-American in spirit, but the law-and-order bunch doesn’t see it that way.<\/p>\n

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<\/a><\/a>…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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U.S. torture debate underscores shifting view on personal liberties – World – CBC News. In America, you get a fair shake, or you’re supposed to. Here, you’re governed by law, not the whim of some swinish satrap. America is not a place where peaceful dissent should cost you your freedom, or even your life. Americans […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[135,338,1795,483,1589,765,1794,834],"class_list":["post-3192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-cia","tag-freedom","tag-human-rights","tag-liberty-2","tag-rule-of-law","tag-surveillance","tag-torture","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3193,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3192\/revisions\/3193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}