{"id":1053,"date":"2004-06-17T00:44:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-17T00:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1053"},"modified":"2018-08-13T14:57:01","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T19:57:01","slug":"1053","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/17\/1053\/","title":{"rendered":"Transitional Equivalence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hooray for <a href=\"http:\/\/abclocal.go.com\/wabc\/news\/WABC_061604_queensman.html\" target=\"new\">this bit of moral equivalence<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> ABC News reports investigators have tied the man to a terrorist cell set to carry out a series of bombings and assassinations in London.<\/p>\n<p>The man, a naturalized citizen from Pakistan, was secretly taken into custody in April.<\/p>\n<p>He is being held at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Lower Manhattan and is said to be cooperating offering investigators significant information about Al Qaeda&#8217;s plans.<\/p>\n<p>He is being held as a material witness and his family is now under federal protection.<\/p>\n<p>The man has told investigators that Al Qaeda is planning more attacks in the United States. He has also revealed a scheme to smuggle terrorists across the Mexican border.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect&#8217;s assertions were part of the intelligence that led to recent warnings about a summer threat from Al Qaeda.<\/p>\n<p><b>Another man being held today is kidnapped American Paul Johnson. <\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Got that?  A material witness in the custody of the United States is the same as Paul Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>Rage, rage against the dying of the schnucking moral insight that would tell ABC News or its affiliate&#8217;s writers that these things are not the same, and Paul Johnson is not another man being held in the same way as a material witness.<\/p>\n<p>Link seen on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hughhewitt.com\" target=\"new\">Hugh Hewitt<\/a>, who doesn&#8217;t comment on this blatant idiocy.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hooray for this bit of moral equivalence: ABC News reports investigators have tied the man to a terrorist cell set to carry out a series of bombings and assassinations in London. The man, a naturalized citizen from Pakistan, was secretly taken into custody in April. He is being held at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23185,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions\/23185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}