{"id":15920,"date":"2010-04-12T02:54:27","date_gmt":"2010-04-11T16:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=15920"},"modified":"2010-04-12T22:20:06","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T12:20:06","slug":"appreciation-for-krudd-in-villawood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=15920","title":{"rendered":"APPreciation for KRudd in Villawood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An estimated 15 or so (I maintain that there were precisely 13, for reasons which will become obvious) members and supporters of the &#8216;Australian Protectionist Party&#8217; assembled outside of Villawood Detention Centre on Sunday, ostensibly in order to protest the er, &#8220;dismantling of Australia&#8217;s borders&#8221; &#8212; a development which, while causing shock among the general public, will certainly cause panic at Channel 7 (especially to the foreign-born <a href=\"http:\/\/au.tv.yahoo.com\/plus7\/border-security\/\">Grant Bowler<\/a>). In response, somewhere between 120 and 200 others gathered at a separate entrance to the Centre to stage a counter-rally (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/nsw\/activists-showdown-at-villawoods-gates-20100411-s0wh.html\">Activists&#8217; showdown at Villawood&#8217;s gates<\/a>, Bellinda Kontominas, <em>The Sydney Morning Herald<\/em>, April 12, 2010). The twain never met, thanks to the thankless efforts of the NSW police.<\/p>\n<p>Now, until recently, I&#8217;d be loathe to exaggerate the importance or effects of such a rally, but given Kerry Bolton&#8217;s own repeated demonstrations of !cinataS powers &#8212; over first the University of Waikato, then Radio New Zealand, and most recently the <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=15524\">New Zealand Press Council<\/a> &#8212; I really can&#8217;t be sure that Chairman KRudd&#8217;s recent announcement that the Federal Government would suspend processing new refugee claims by Sri Lankans and Afghanis (for three and six months respectively) was <em>not<\/em> the result of the exercise of <em>supernatural powers<\/em> by members of the APP. Or perhaps KRudd&#8217;s decision was prompted by The Mad Monk&#8217;s quip that &#8216;Jesus didn&#8217;t say yes to everyone&#8217;, so why should he? In any case, the ungrateful wretches known as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/breaking-news\/asylum-seekers-on-hunger-strike-over-kevin-rudds-tough-stance\/story-e6frfku0-1225852508016\">Asylum seekers on hunger strike over Kevin Rudd&#8217;s tough stance<\/a> (AAP, April 12, 2010).<\/p>\n<p>Fair shake of the sauce battle Afghani and Sri Lankan asylum seekers!<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"445\" height=\"364\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/R-SJMarKu1E&#038;hl=en_GB&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0&#038;color1=0x5d1719&#038;color2=0xcd311b&#038;border=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p><em>See also<\/em> : <a href=\"http:\/\/fe.org.au\/2010\/04\/12\/the-face-of-racism\/\">The Face of Racism\u2026<\/a>, Fe &#8230; a life, April 12, 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An estimated 15 or so (I maintain that there were precisely 13, for reasons which will become obvious) members and supporters of the &#8216;Australian Protectionist Party&#8217; assembled outside of Villawood Detention Centre on Sunday, ostensibly in order to protest the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=15920\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[160],"class_list":["post-15920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-fascism","category-state","tag-australian-protectionist-party"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6AyE-48M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15920"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15963,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15920\/revisions\/15963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}