{"id":1142,"date":"2004-10-02T17:33:17","date_gmt":"2004-10-03T01:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/10\/02\/outsourcing-torture\/"},"modified":"2004-10-02T17:33:17","modified_gmt":"2004-10-03T01:33:17","slug":"outsourcing-torture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1142","title":{"rendered":"Outsourcing Torture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/eve-tushnet.blogspot.com\/\">Eve Tushnet<\/a>, Mark Shea quotes a letter from a reader on <a href=\"http:\/\/markshea.blogspot.com\/2004_09_01_markshea_archive.html#109648740528821022\">the &#8220;outsourcing torture&#8221; bill<\/a>. Mark comments &#8220;If the Right manages to push this through, they will have earned my contempt. I see no way a Catholic could possibly support such a heinous law.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s nice, but I don&#8217;t think the Republicans really <i>care <\/i>if they&#8217;ve earned Mark&#8217;s contempt or not, so long as they have his vote.<\/p>\n<p>(Although Mark&#8217;s views on torture are, of course, much to his credit, I have to admit I have an ulterior motive for linking to this; I thought it might amuse &#8220;Alas&#8221; readers to be reminded of a worldview in which the <i>Democrats <\/i>are the Party of Evil and the <i>Republicans <\/i>are the Party of Stupid.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Eve Tushnet, Mark Shea quotes a letter from a reader on the &#8220;outsourcing torture&#8221; bill. Mark comments &#8220;If the Right manages to push this through, they will have earned my contempt. I see no way a Catholic could possibly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1142\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}