{"id":1843,"date":"2012-01-08T16:00:05","date_gmt":"2012-01-08T20:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/?p=1843"},"modified":"2012-01-08T16:00:05","modified_gmt":"2012-01-08T20:00:05","slug":"im-not-brave-enough-to-be-a-pacifist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/?p=1843","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I&#8217;m not brave enough to be a pacifist.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r7GsekIhxwE?wmode=transparent&amp;fs=1&amp;hl=en&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;showsearch=0&amp;rel=1&amp;theme=dark&amp;feature=player_embedded#!\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>H\/T <a href=\"http:\/\/strikelawyer.wordpress.com\/2012\/01\/07\/phil-donahue\/\">John Regan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On a related note, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rhdefense.com\/2012\/01\/05\/the-pain-of-knowing?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rhdefense%2FKPMY+%28Probable+Cause%29\">Rick Horowitz writes<\/a> (emphasis added):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You might pity us [criminal defense attorneys] because of our clients. \u201cOh, god!,\u201d I hear more often than not. \u201cHow could you defend that person? How hard that must be!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The truth is, though, that sometimes our clients are not guilty. Even those who have committed some crime have often not committed the crime of which they are accused. And even when they have \u2014 yes, please think about this! \u2014 even when they have, it was an accident. A one-off incident that will never recur again.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not at all to say that it\u2019s okay. It\u2019s not to say that all should be forgiven. <strong>However much it might actually be as effective in preventing future crimes<\/strong>, I know of no one who will say, \u201cGo, and sin no more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Well, okay. Maybe I\u2019ve heard of One. But we know what happened to Him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>H\/T John Regan On a related note, Rick Horowitz writes (emphasis added): You might pity us [criminal defense attorneys] because of our clients. \u201cOh, god!,\u201d I hear more often than not. \u201cHow could you defend that person? How hard that must be!\u201d The truth is, though, that sometimes our clients are not guilty. Even those [&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-1843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1844,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843\/revisions\/1844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}