{"id":1182,"date":"2006-03-22T19:13:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-22T19:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/03\/22\/hidden-in-the-budget-aftermath\/"},"modified":"2008-02-12T13:57:10","modified_gmt":"2008-02-12T13:57:10","slug":"hidden-in-the-budget-aftermath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/03\/hidden-in-the-budget-aftermath\/","title":{"rendered":"Hidden in the budget aftermath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk_politics\/4834738.stm\">That &#8220;glorification of terrorism&#8221; nonsense has just passed in the Lords.<\/a> To say that the tactics of Nelson Mandela and his allies in opposing apartheid achieved a good thing and were laudible will shortly &#8211; technically &#8211; become illegal. Hurrah.<\/p>\n<p>To cheer yourselves up after that, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/commentisfree.guardian.co.uk\/david_blunkett\/2006\/03\/lets_not_undermine_democracy.html\">Blunkett&#8217;s pathetic excuses<\/a> about that loans business, and join in the heckling in the comments. Great fun &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/commentisfree.guardian.co.uk\/\">Comment is Free<\/a> proving its worth after a lackluster opening week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That &#8220;glorification of terrorism&#8221; nonsense has just passed in the Lords. To say that the tactics of Nelson Mandela and his allies in opposing apartheid achieved a good thing and were laudible will shortly &#8211; technically &#8211; become illegal. Hurrah. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/03\/hidden-in-the-budget-aftermath\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[183],"class_list":["post-1182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-liberties","tag-civil-liberties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}