{"id":209,"date":"2024-06-11T10:39:58","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T10:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jcjordan.com\/jcjordanblog\/?p=209"},"modified":"2024-06-11T10:40:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T10:40:00","slug":"new-dangerous-territory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jcjordan.com\/jcjordanblog\/2024\/06\/11\/new-dangerous-territory\/","title":{"rendered":"New Dangerous Territory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The governor of Texas has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2024\/05\/16\/daniel-perry-greg-abbott-pardon\/\">pardoned a man<\/a> who was tried and convicted of murder. That in itself is not that unusual, as things happen and the pardoning process can sometimes rectify these situations. But no, that&#8217;s not what happened. It appears that Gov. Abbot has pardoned him because <em>he killed the right people<\/em>. He was convicted of killing a BLM protestor in Austin, Texas. The measure he is sending is clear: &#8220;If you kill the right people, we will not hold you responsible for those killings.&#8221; This is something that if you told Americans even ten years ago, they wouldn&#8217;t believe, but now is a reality. And soon they will start <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/30\/texas-republicans-vote-death-penalty-abortion-providers\">suggesting capital punishment <\/a>to women and their care providers who will not act as brood mares for the state. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The future looks dystopic if you venture into the South.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The governor of Texas has pardoned a man who was tried and convicted of murder. That in itself is not that unusual, as things happen and the pardoning process can sometimes rectify these situations. But no, that&#8217;s not what happened. It appears that Gov. Abbot has pardoned him because he killed the right people. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjordan.com\/jcjordanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjordan.com\/jcjordanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjordan.com\/jcjordanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjordan.com\/jcjordanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjordan.com\/jcjordanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjordan.com\/jcjordanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjordan.com\/jcjordanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjordan.com\/jcjordanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjordan.com\/jcjordanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjordan.com\/jcjordanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}