{"id":1331,"date":"2010-03-18T08:57:36","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T19:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1331"},"modified":"2011-01-15T13:10:39","modified_gmt":"2011-01-15T00:10:39","slug":"waihopai-ploughshares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1331","title":{"rendered":"Waihopai Ploughshares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d also like to add my voice to all those expressing bewildered delight that <a href=http:\/\/www.scoop.co.nz\/stories\/HL1003\/S00202.htm>the Waihopai Three were acquitted<\/a>. They were three nonviolent peace activists who broke into a secure base and deflated the canopy over one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Echelon_%28signals_intelligence%29\">Echelon system<\/a>&#8216;s monitoring dishes.<\/p>\n<p>I have no idea how the jury found them not guilty; the defence were running a pretty unlikely line. I can only conclude that the jury respected their actions and fudged the decision to avoid punishing them.<\/p>\n<p>There might yet be an appeal. I feel the Crown might decide not to, though, as they probably know they&#8217;d be on a hiding to nothing pursuing the case &#8211; better to let it sink into history. One can only imagine what will be going on in the diplomatic backchannels about this, though.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway. Crazy outcome. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d also like to add my voice to all those expressing bewildered delight that the Waihopai Three were acquitted. They were three nonviolent peace activists who broke into a secure base and deflated the canopy over one of the Echelon system&#8216;s monitoring dishes. I have no idea how the jury found them not guilty; the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1331\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Waihopai Ploughshares<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[10],"tags":[33,32],"class_list":["post-1331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything-political","tag-activism","tag-protest"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-lt","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1331"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2059,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions\/2059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}