{"id":1243,"date":"2018-01-07T10:44:12","date_gmt":"2018-01-07T18:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amnestyseattle.org\/?p=1243"},"modified":"2018-01-07T10:57:47","modified_gmt":"2018-01-07T18:57:47","slug":"guantanamo-lawlessness-and-the-myth-of-american-exceptionalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amnestyseattle.org\/?p=1243","title":{"rendered":"\u201cGuantanamo, Lawlessness, and the Myth of American Exceptionalism\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most Americans have forgotten that Guantanamo prison camp even still exists. But Amnesty International hasn&#8217;t.<br \/>\nPeople are still held there without charge or trial. Just like in the dictatorships we love to criticize overseas.\u00a0It&#8217;s well past time to close it down.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday Jan 11th at 7:00PM there will be a guest speaker at the UW School of Law,\u00a0Jonathan Hafetz.\u00a0Jonathan Hafetz is a senior staff attorney with the ACLU Center for Democracy. He is also a professor of law at Seton Hall University School of Law, where he teaches courses on constitutional law, national security law, and international law.<\/p>\n<p>More details here: \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/300169667142333\/\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/300169667142333\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1249\" src=\"https:\/\/amnestyseattle.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/8710172._UY475_SS475_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amnestyseattle.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/8710172._UY475_SS475_.jpg 475w, https:\/\/amnestyseattle.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/8710172._UY475_SS475_-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most Americans have forgotten that Guantanamo prison camp even still exists. But Amnesty International hasn&#8217;t. People are still held there without charge or trial. Just like in the dictatorships we love to criticize overseas.\u00a0It&#8217;s well past time to close it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amnestyseattle.org\/?p=1243\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amnestyseattle.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amnestyseattle.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amnestyseattle.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amnestyseattle.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amnestyseattle.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1243"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/amnestyseattle.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1250,"href":"https:\/\/amnestyseattle.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions\/1250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amnestyseattle.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amnestyseattle.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amnestyseattle.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}