{"id":5388,"date":"2010-05-20T15:24:01","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T19:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=5388"},"modified":"2010-05-20T15:24:01","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T19:24:01","slug":"if-gangsters-get-the-death-penalty-for-drive-by-shootings-why-can%e2%80%99t-rogue-governments-who-target-warships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/5388\/if-gangsters-get-the-death-penalty-for-drive-by-shootings-why-can%e2%80%99t-rogue-governments-who-target-warships\/","title":{"rendered":"If Gangsters Get the Death Penalty for Drive-By Shootings, Why Can\u2019t Rogue Governments Who Target Warships?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If a carload of Crip gang members shot up a Los Angeles Police Department bus killing 46 officers, every gang member involved would be convicted of murder and given the death penalty.\u00a0 They wouldn\u2019t be fined and given a stern warning.<\/p>\n<p>So, why can\u2019t that law enforcement approach be applied to rogue governments like <a href=\"http:\/\/apnews.myway.com\/article\/20100520\/D9FQGC2G0.html \" target=\"_blank\">North Korea who was identified as sinking a South Korean warship<\/a>, an act that killed 46 South Korean sailors?\u00a0 After all, \u201ccop killers\u201d are singled out for particularly harsh penalties precisely because they target the guardians of law, order, peace, and safety.\u00a0 How can the mass murder of 46 military personnel aboard a sovereign nation\u2019s vessel be any less of an attack on a nation\u2019s security?<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, that isn\u2019t the tenor coming from South Korean officials and their allies.\u00a0 They sound like they&#8217;re more interested in meaningless United Nations resolutions and economic sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>The South\u2019s president is vowing to \u201ctake strong resolute countermeasures against North Korea and make it admit its wrongdoing through strong international cooperation.\u201d\u00a0 Such cooperation includes calling the North\u2019s attack \u201cinexcusable\u201d (Japan) and an \u201cact of aggression\u201d (USA), which are only slightly bolder than China\u2019s declaration that the event is \u201cunfortunate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The truly unfortunate reality is that we live in a world where terrorist groups and governments slaughter innocents under the guise of fictitious provocations, while so-called civilized societies let those who volunteer to defend their safety suffer the consequences of enlightened restraint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If a carload of Crip gang members shot up a Los Angeles Police Department bus killing 46 officers, every gang member involved would be convicted of murder and given the death penalty.\u00a0 They wouldn\u2019t be fined and given a stern warning. So, why can\u2019t that law enforcement approach be applied to rogue governments like North [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[135,1300,134,1301,1299,682,394],"class_list":["post-5388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-china","tag-japan","tag-north-korea","tag-rogue-nation","tag-south-korea","tag-terrorist","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5388"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5392,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5388\/revisions\/5392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}