{"id":129899,"date":"2016-02-23T19:01:38","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T19:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/23\/the-terrifying-power-of-evil-muslim-super-villains.html"},"modified":"2016-02-23T19:01:38","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T19:01:38","slug":"the-terrifying-power-of-evil-muslim-super-villains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/23\/the-terrifying-power-of-evil-muslim-super-villains.html","title":{"rendered":"The terrifying power of Evil Muslim Super-Villains!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#39;s remarkable that some of the same conservative voices who have so gleefully loved stuffing our prisons full of folk &#8212; from mass murderers to people caught too many times in possession &#8212; are terrified that even the most maximum-security prisons across the nation will somehow be inadequate to protect against the horrifying super-powers of 30-60 detainees from Guantanamo.<\/p>\n<p>Though, to be fair, I doubt it&#39;s about actual fear, but about how much fear can be drummed up about it so as to move their base. It&#39;s not about fear on the part of GOP opposition, but about power derived from fear.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/news-politics\/politics\/news\/a42378\/guantanamo-bay-close-obama\/'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/WLWb5HE8_ha0eHlYYej1rpccSUZWWJd1vbngDSNrptKdQmGbeDAsXfRXAYrvspsW3uOa2tJmCVQCHSYdYEkdyb3n_sR_QceNXMydCDAp9CbjesPyfrr8Ow=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/news-politics\/politics\/news\/a42378\/guantanamo-bay-close-obama\/'>The Guantanamo Bay Debate Is Not About Power. It&#8217;s About Fear.<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nAnd it tells us a lot about the state of our democracy.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/Rsg6GLkLW8U'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#39;s remarkable that some of the same conservative voices who have so gleefully loved stuffing our prisons full of folk &#8212; from mass murderers to people caught too many times in possession &#8212; are terrified that even the most maximum-security prisons across the nation will somehow be inadequate to protect against the horrifying super-powers of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/23\/the-terrifying-power-of-evil-muslim-super-villains.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The terrifying power of Evil Muslim Super-Villains!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9761,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/11\/06\/and_then_he_woke_up_as_a.html","url_meta":{"origin":129899,"position":0},"title":"&#8220;And then he woke up as a giant cockroach &#8230;&#8221;","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 6-Nov-06 2:27pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Terror suspects who've been questioned in CIA secret prisons shouldn't be allowed access to attorneys, not because of what they know or for fear that they'll possibly give orders to...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Homeland Security&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Homeland Security","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law\/homeland-security"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9114,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/02\/15\/tap_tap_tap.html","url_meta":{"origin":129899,"position":1},"title":"Tap, tap, tap &#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 15-Feb-06 9:23am","format":false,"excerpt":"Even various Republican stalwarts have continuing problems (rightly so) with the Bush Administration's wiretapping policy (as much for what's not known about it as for what is). 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