{"id":2122,"date":"2012-05-11T11:40:04","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T15:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/?p=2122"},"modified":"2012-05-12T18:45:39","modified_gmt":"2012-05-12T22:45:39","slug":"welcome-to-room-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/?p=2122","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Room 101."},"content":{"rendered":"

The Center for a Stateless Society announced yesterday<\/a> that it has cut all ties with a former staff member who turned informant for the State to save her own skin<\/a> from drug charges.<\/p>\n

I hope and believe that if I ever found myself in a similar situation I would have the courage to die like a lion rather than live like a dog, as Tony Serra so passionately put it<\/a>. But it’s important to remember that the State, which tortures people into betraying their friends, is the real monster here.<\/p>\n

I’m cognizant of the apparent dissonance between this view and my implied approval of the fictional “proposition”<\/a> I reviewed in my last post. I’m confident those who’ve seen that movie will appreciate the distinction.<\/p>\n

I’m reminded of a post Jeff Gamso wrote<\/a> a while ago in which he condemned as the lowest of the low a criminal defense lawyer who, by wearing a wire, had betrayed a client who was involved in a drug ring. I wholeheartedly seconded the condemnation in a comment, but noted, contrarian that I am, that a criminal defense lawyer might have a real ethical dilemma on his hands if he learns that his client is actively involved not in a drug ring but in a sex slavery ring. Another commenter suggested that if that’s what I thought I had no business representing people accused of crimes. But I think the actual Rules of Professional Conduct support me on that<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Center for a Stateless Society announced yesterday that it has cut all ties with a former staff member who turned informant for the State to save her own skin from drug charges. I hope and believe that if I ever found myself in a similar situation I would have the courage to die like […]<\/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-2122","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\/2122","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=2122"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2127,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122\/revisions\/2127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}