{"id":302907,"date":"2021-09-08T08:59:06","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T08:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=213829"},"modified":"2021-09-08T08:59:06","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T08:59:06","slug":"9-11-and-my-pariah-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/09\/08\/9-11-and-my-pariah-decade\/","title":{"rendered":"9\/11 and My Pariah Decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I spoke at the largest nationwide gathering of freedom activists in Las Vegas and at the national Libertarian Party conference in 2004, I was booed for my criticisms of Bush\u2019s warring and torturing. I was also later booed for opposing torture at the Foundation for Economic Education in Irvington, New York.\u00a0 Plenty of libertarians were no longer in favor of freedom - unless it included the freedom to torture terrorists.\u00a0 And how do we know who is a terrorist? That\u2019s easy - because someone somewhere claims to suspect them of something. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/09\/08\/9-11-and-my-pariah-decade\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/09\/08\/9-11-and-my-pariah-decade\/\">9\/11 and My Pariah Decade<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/09\/08\/9-11-and-my-pariah-decade\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I spoke at the largest nationwide gathering of freedom activists in Las Vegas and at the national Libertarian Party conference in 2004, I was booed for my criticisms of Bush\u2019s warring and torturing. I was also later booed for opposing torture at t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":175,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302907"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302907"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302976,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302907\/revisions\/302976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}