{"id":386721,"date":"2018-11-27T06:16:22","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T05:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/whitewashing-murder-is-simply-wrong\/"},"modified":"2018-11-27T06:16:22","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T05:16:22","slug":"whitewashing-murder-is-simply-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/whitewashing-murder-is-simply-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Whitewashing Murder is Simply Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_107423\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-107423\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/11\/Mohammed_bin_Salmans_Saudi_Arabia_A_Deeper_Look_40917729462.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/11\/Mohammed_bin_Salmans_Saudi_Arabia_A_Deeper_Look_40917729462.jpg 510w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/11\/Mohammed_bin_Salmans_Saudi_Arabia_A_Deeper_Look_40917729462-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Source POMED | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Last Tuesday, within about an hour of his announcement on the murder of Jamal Khashoggi announcement, in the heat of the moment, I commented on the president\u2019s acceptance of the Riyadh royals\u2019 explanation of the Istanbul consulate incident. I called his statement\u00a0\u201ccrude\u201d and \u201cbuttheadedly amoral.\u201d I\u00a0should have stated the obvious broader point: It was\u00a0<em>wrong.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Marxists have historically inveighed (appropriately) against capitalism, imperialism, semi-feudalism etc.\u2014neutral moral categories\u2014using such terms as \u201creactionary\u201d and \u201copportunist\u201d when desiring to add a moral edge. And certainly capitalist profit and imperialist hegemony factor into Trump\u2019s response to the cold-blooded crime. But sometimes it\u2019s best to go back to the basics, and draw upon primordial human vocabulary. The murder of the dissident Saudi journalist was pure\u00a0<em>evil<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The prohibition on killing occurs in the earliest law codes and taboo lists. It\u2019s understood to have limited application; rulers can use military force to maintain power and \u201cpreserve order.\u201d But generally speaking humans concur that it\u2019s wrong to kill someone. It\u2019s\u00a0<em>wrong.\u00a0<\/em>This is basic. For those arriving from outer space it is Humanity 101. It is of course the Sixth Commandment in the Bible. It is fundamental to the\u00a0<em>contrat social\u00a0<\/em>of Rousseau.<\/p>\n<p>Killing means something different to those who believe in an afterlife and those who believe we die and disappear. Those of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/11\/26\/whitewashing-murder-is-simply-wrong\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo Source POMED | CC BY 2.0 Last Tuesday, within about an hour of his announcement on the murder of Jamal Khashoggi announcement, in the heat of the moment, I commented on the president\u2019s acceptance of the Riyadh royals\u2019 explanation of the Istanbul consulate incident. I called his statement\u00a0\u201ccrude\u201d and \u201cbuttheadedly amoral.\u201d I\u00a0should have stated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-386721","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}