{"id":10566,"date":"2013-05-26T13:20:38","date_gmt":"2013-05-26T19:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=10566"},"modified":"2013-05-26T13:25:21","modified_gmt":"2013-05-26T19:25:21","slug":"david-swanson-says-memorial-day-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/david-swanson-says-memorial-day-this\/","title":{"rendered":"David Swanson says &#8216;Memorial Day THIS&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/warisacrime.org\/content\/memorial-day\" target=\"_blank\">David Swanson<\/a> writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Imagine if at some point during the 1990s or 1980s the President of the United States had given a speech.  And this was his speech:<\/p>\n<p>My fellow Americans, I&#8217;ve been regularly shooting missiles into people&#8217;s houses in several countries.  I&#8217;ve wiped out families.  I&#8217;ve killed thousands of people.  Hundreds of them have been little children. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve killed grandparents, wives, daughters, neighbors.  I&#8217;ve targeted people without knowing their names but because they appeared to be resisting an occupation of their country.  I&#8217;ve killed whoever was too near them.  Then I&#8217;ve shot another missile a few minutes later to kill whoever was trying to help the victims. <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t charge these people with crimes.  I don&#8217;t seek their extradition.  I don&#8217;t even try to kidnap them.  And I don&#8217;t do this to defend against any imminent threat.  I don&#8217;t make you safer by doing this.  It goes without saying (although the people in the countries I target keep saying it) that I&#8217;m generating more new enemies than I&#8217;m killing.  But I urge you to remember this: All but four of the people I&#8217;ve killed have been non-U.S. citizens.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Is it just me or are we complacent about drone attacks as a country? Is it because it&#8217;s not boots on the ground? Or do we somehow believe it&#8217;s just a means to an end?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Swanson writes: Imagine if at some point during the 1990s or 1980s the President of the United States had given a speech. And this was his speech: My fellow Americans, I&#8217;ve been regularly shooting missiles into people&#8217;s houses in several countries. I&#8217;ve wiped out families. I&#8217;ve killed thousands of people. Hundreds of them have &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/david-swanson-says-memorial-day-this\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">David Swanson says &#8216;Memorial Day THIS&#8217;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-2Kq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10566"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10569,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10566\/revisions\/10569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}