{"id":1227,"date":"2003-05-27T04:07:44","date_gmt":"2003-05-27T18:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/05\/27\/from-the-ashes-of-auschwitz\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:37:28","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:37:28","slug":"from-the-ashes-of-auschwitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/05\/27\/from-the-ashes-of-auschwitz\/","title":{"rendered":"From the ashes of Auschwitz"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:14584,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/news.com.au\\\/common\\\/story_page\\\/0,4057,6494000%255E401,00.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.news.com.au\\\/common\\\/story_page\\\/0,4057,6494000%5E401,00.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14585,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.thismodernworld.com\\\/weblog\\\/mtarchives\\\/week_2003_05_25.html#000653&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/thismodernworld.com\\\/weblog\\\/mtarchives\\\/week_2003_05_25.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Guantanamo Bay, already one of the most disturbing aspects of the US military, might be getting a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.au\/common\/story_page\/0,4057,6494000%255E401,00.html\" title=\"News.com.au: US plans death camp\">whole lot worse<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  THE US has floated plans to turn Guantanamo Bay into a death camp, with its own death row and execution chamber.<\/p>\n<p>  Prisoners would be tried, convicted and executed without leaving its boundaries, without a jury and without right of appeal, The Mail on Sunday newspaper reported yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>  The plans were revealed by Major-General Geoffrey Miller, who is in charge of 680 suspects from 43 countries, including two Australians.<\/p>\n<p>  The suspects have been held at Camp Delta on Cuba without charge for 18 months.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The ever-growing parallels between some of the US&#8217;s current policies and another historical superpower keep getting freakier. We&#8217;re not quite there yet, and I hope we don&#8217;t reach that point, but there are enough similarities to worry me at times.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thismodernworld.com\/weblog\/mtarchives\/week_2003_05_25.html#000653\" title=\"Judge, Jury...Executioner?\">Tom Tomorrow<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE US has floated plans to turn Guantanamo Bay into a death camp, with its own death row and execution chamber. Prisoners would be tried, convicted and executed without leaving its boundaries, without a jury and without right of appeal, The Mail on Sunday newspaper reported yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-1227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}