{"id":653742,"date":"2010-02-03T21:37:52","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T02:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=64982"},"modified":"2010-02-03T21:37:52","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T02:37:52","slug":"lemack-911-families-deserve-access-to-ksm-trial-opposition-using-it-as-%e2%80%9cpolitical-football%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/653742","title":{"rendered":"Lemack: 9\/11 Families Deserve Access to KSM Trial, Opposition Using it as \u201cPolitical Football\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class='hitEmbed_right'><object width=\"320\" height=\"259\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/s-XGWPvYeIo&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve asked it before and I will ask it again: Why do chickenhawks want to dignify terrorists by treating them like soldiers, instead of like the criminals they are?<\/p>\n<p>Al Qaeda is an organized crime enterprise.&#8211;no more exotic than the mafia, or a multinational drug cartel. OK, they are ideology-driven rather than profit-driven, but that&#8217;s about the only distinction. Like the mafia or a drug cartel, they use murder, violence and threats of violence against persons and property as business tools to achieve their goals.<\/p>\n<p>Why do people want to glorify them and act as if they are soldiers instead of criminal low-lifes? Well, one answer might be politics. You know, a chance to get in front of the cameras and maybe drive a fundraising push?<\/p>\n<p>Carie Lemack, co-founder of The Families of September 11, has got it just right. Listen to what she has to say.<\/p>\n<p>[<em><strong>Ed. Note<\/strong><\/em>: Also, Marcy has <a href=\"http:\/\/emptywheel.firedoglake.com\/2010\/02\/03\/holder-to-republicans-stop-being-such-watbs-about-miranda-warnings-and-mukaseys-decisions\/\" >AG Eric Holder&#8217;s thorough response to the GOP Coward Caucus<\/a>.]<\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/firedoglake.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-this\/share-icon-16x16.gif?resize=16%2C16\" alt=\"Share This icon\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=64982&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"Email, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_64982\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"noindex nofollow\">&nbsp;<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p><br style='clear:none' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve asked it before and I will ask it again: Why do chickenhawks want to dignify terrorists by treating them like soldiers, instead of like the criminals they are? Al Qaeda is an organized crime enterprise.&#8211;no more exotic than the mafia, or a multinational drug cartel. OK, they are ideology-driven rather than profit-driven, but that&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2788,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2K4e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2788"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}