{"id":1033,"date":"2005-03-02T10:39:57","date_gmt":"2005-03-02T10:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2005\/03\/goodbye_civil_l\/"},"modified":"2005-03-02T10:39:57","modified_gmt":"2005-03-02T10:39:57","slug":"goodbye_civil_l","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/goodbye_civil_l\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye Civil Liberties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was nice knowing you.<br \/>\nFrom now on, <strong>if you&#8217;re Muslim, you&#8217;re going to get<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/terrorism\/story\/0,12780,1428402,00.html\"><strong>stopped and searched much more<\/strong><\/a>. Hazel Blears, the minister responsible for counter-terrorism, said so. (I&#8217;d say, don&#8217;t take it personally, but it is personal).<br \/>\nAs many have said, we can quite confidentally admit defeat to Osama Bin Ladin. He has us over a barrel without any terrorist incident actually taking place. The fundamental doctrine of our system of law and order is being removed. The burden of proof has gone.<br \/>\nWhen I read that polls indicate that the public agree with this policy, I truly despair of the nation I live in.<br \/>\nAre we truly so gullable as to swallow all the lies and scaremongering that we&#8217;re fed?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was nice knowing you. From now on, if you&#8217;re Muslim, you&#8217;re going to get stopped and searched much more. Hazel Blears, the minister responsible for counter-terrorism, said so. (I&#8217;d say, don&#8217;t take it personally, but it is personal). As many have said, we can quite confidentally admit defeat to Osama Bin Ladin. He has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}