{"id":422,"date":"2004-04-15T01:28:42","date_gmt":"2004-04-15T01:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:08:34","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:08:34","slug":"who_are_we_to_judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=422","title":{"rendered":"Who Are We To Judge?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here, in a nutshell<\/a>, is why I can’t step up and absolutely condemn Little Green Footballs<\/a>. The folks that do this kind of thing don’t get to sit at the table and have ‘legitimate grievances’. No grievance justifies this kind of behavior. It is, in a word, barbaric. They videotaped butchery to satisfy their rage and inflame others:<\/p>\n

Aljazeera earlier described the tape as “too bloody” and said it will not air it “in order not to upset viewers sensitivities”.<\/p>\n

In a statement accompanying the tape, the abductors of the four Italians justified the killing. <\/p>\n

“When your president says pulling the troops out of Iraq is non-negotiable then this means he does not care for the safety of his citizens as much as he is concerned with satisfying his masters in the White House,” the statement said. <\/p>\n

“We have killed one of the four hostages we have in order to teach a lesson for those who are involved. We know they are guards working for the American occupation in our country.<\/p>\n

“We ask you one more time to revolt once again in the face of your leaders and reject this unjust war on us so that we can protect your citizens. We are waiting for that from you or else we will kill them one by one,” added the Green Brigade.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Who are we to judge, you ask?<\/p>\n

If you have to ask, you aren’t going to understand my reply.<\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/b> More here<\/a> – a show of true bravery by the executed hostage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The folks that do think kind of thing don’t get to sit at the table and have ‘legitimate grievances’. No grievance justifies this kind of behavior. It is, in a word, barbaric. They videotaped butchery to satisfy their rage and inflame others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}