{"id":786,"date":"2005-09-10T10:51:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-10T10:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/09\/10\/112634614480980139\/"},"modified":"2005-09-10T10:51:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-10T10:51:00","slug":"112634614480980139","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/09\/112634614480980139\/","title":{"rendered":"112634614480980139"},"content":{"rendered":"<dl><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spy.org.uk\/spyblog\/archives\/2005\/09\/home_office_pap.html\">Spyblog on Charles Clarke&#8217;s apparent misunderstandings of the nature of the EU, biometrics, cross-border police work and civil liberties.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Clarkie boy has also started using <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk_politics\/4230254.stm\">massively pointed truisms<\/a>: &#8220;All European parliamentarians &#8230; should face up to the fact that the people who elected them want the European Union to have a strong package of measures to fight terrorism and serious and organised crime.&#8221; &#8211; well yes, yes they probably do, Charles. Just not the ones you&#8217;re putting forward, you fat fuck.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mi5.gov.uk\/output\/Page387.html\">the head of MI5 is being used as political back-up<\/a> &#8220;We also, of course, and I repeat in both our countries and within the EU value civil liberties and wish to do nothing to damage these hard-fought for rights. But the world has changed and <b>there needs to be a debate on whether some erosion of what we all value may be necessary<\/b> to improve the chances of our citizens not being blown apart as they go about their daily lives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yay &#8211; let&#8217;s let the terrorists win just a teensy bit, and see if that works shall we?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spyblog on Charles Clarke&#8217;s apparent misunderstandings of the nature of the EU, biometrics, cross-border police work and civil liberties. Clarkie boy has also started using massively pointed truisms: &#8220;All European parliamentarians &#8230; should face up to the fact that the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/09\/112634614480980139\/\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786","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=786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}