{"id":27385,"date":"2011-10-22T10:54:53","date_gmt":"2011-10-22T00:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=27385"},"modified":"2011-10-22T10:54:53","modified_gmt":"2011-10-22T00:54:53","slug":"whats-a-tiananmen-occupymelb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=27385","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s a Tiananmen? #occupymelb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/news\/opinion\/occupying-the-protesters-time\/story-e6frg71x-1226173476574\">If as a nation we support those declaring their aspirations in Cairo&#8217;s Tahrir Square or before that in Beijing&#8217;s Tiananmen Square and Berlin&#8217;s Potsdamer Platz, then we surely are bound to defend the rights of the &#8220;occupy&#8221; movement.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6162\/6267453101_bce3e6de58_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Actually, Melbourne Lord Mayor Robert Doyle is only bound by political expediency&#8211;and bad advice, presumably emanating from government and police authorities. Otherwise, the defence of civil rights has a very definite <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2011-10-22\/melbourne-protesters-threaten-legal-action\/3594974\">legal dimension<\/a>, while Dr_Tad has some interesting disco on the protest&#8217;s political dimension <a href=\"http:\/\/left-flank.blogspot.com\/2011\/10\/occupyoz-captures-mood-but-its-critics.html\">here<\/a>. Nicola Paris is presumably one of several photographers to have documented the <a href=\"http:\/\/twitpic.com\/73ee92\">removal of police ID<\/a> prior to police action: a practice disavowed by police command but now standard practice for <a href=\"http:\/\/australianpolitics.com\/pg\/groups\/barrett-s11-report-2000.shtml#6.5\">at least a decade<\/a> and adopted so as to limit police liability in civil cases.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CiP_rQIrcFU\">this<\/a> policeman will escape caution?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If as a nation we support those declaring their aspirations in Cairo&#8217;s Tahrir Square or before that in Beijing&#8217;s Tiananmen Square and Berlin&#8217;s Potsdamer Platz, then we surely are bound to defend the rights of the &#8220;occupy&#8221; movement. Actually, Melbourne &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=27385\">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":[18,29,9,893],"tags":[1310,1317],"class_list":["post-27385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natas","category-broken-windows","category-state","category-thats-capitalism","tag-occupy-melbourne","tag-robert-doyle"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6AyE-77H","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\/27385","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=27385"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27397,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27385\/revisions\/27397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}