{"id":7898,"date":"2009-06-07T19:30:17","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T02:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=7898"},"modified":"2009-06-07T19:30:17","modified_gmt":"2009-06-08T02:50:05","slug":"the-ticking-time-bomb-scenario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=7898","title":{"rendered":"The Ticking Time-Bomb Scenario"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Under rules of engagement developed in the Bush Administration, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/06\/07\/AR2009060701207.html?hpid=topnews\" target=\"_blank\">we can waterboard Scott Roeder<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The man charged with murdering a high-profile abortion doctor claimed from his jail cell Sunday that similar violence was planned around the nation for as long as the procedure remained legal, a threat that comes days after a federal investigation launched into his possible accomplices.<\/p>\n<p>A Justice Department spokesman said the threat was being taken seriously and additional protection had been ordered for abortion clinics last week. But a leader of the anti-abortion movement derided the accused shooter as &#8220;a fruit and a lunatic.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So I&#8217;m sure the right will join me in calling for torture &#8220;enhanced interrogation techniques&#8221; to be used against Roeder, just to see what he&#8217;s up to.<\/p>\n<p>What? No takers?<\/p>\n<p>Funny, isn&#8217;t it? When the terrorist isn&#8217;t brown, the bloodlust just isn&#8217;t as fun for you guys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under rules of engagement developed in the Bush Administration, we can waterboard Scott Roeder: The man charged with murdering a high-profile abortion doctor claimed from his jail cell Sunday that similar violence was planned around the nation for as long &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=7898\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion-reproductive-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7898","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}