{"id":202,"date":"2006-05-03T14:52:58","date_gmt":"2006-05-03T21:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegerber.wpengine.com\/?p=202"},"modified":"2006-05-03T14:52:58","modified_gmt":"2006-05-03T21:52:58","slug":"the-moussaoui-verdict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/?p=202","title":{"rendered":"The Moussaoui Verdict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was a very wise jury.<\/p>\n<p>If Zacarias Moussaoui was complicit by his silence in the 9\/11 attacks, you don&#8217;t punish him by dispatching him to meet Allah.<\/p>\n<p>You deny him his martyrdom.<\/p>\n<p>You deny him his 72 virgins.<\/p>\n<p>You deny him every narcissistic desire that would, in his own mind, have made his existence meaningful in the eyes of Heaven and gotten him laid on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>You make him live in the hated West, in the belly of the Great Satan, with the taste of the adversary&#8217;s food &#8212; and\/or semen; after all, we *are* talking prison here &#8212; in his mouth every day for the rest of his life.<\/p>\n<p>And you pray he lives a very long life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was a very wise jury. If Zacarias Moussaoui was complicit by his silence in the 9\/11 attacks, you don&#8217;t punish him by dispatching him to meet Allah. You deny him his martyrdom. You deny him his 72 virgins. You deny him every narcissistic desire that would, in his own mind, have made his existence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}