{"id":651,"date":"2007-10-16T00:39:07","date_gmt":"2007-10-16T00:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=651"},"modified":"2007-10-16T00:39:07","modified_gmt":"2007-10-16T00:39:07","slug":"nz-terror-raids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=651","title":{"rendered":"NZ Terror Raids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It sounds like the excited fever dream of the rightest of right-wing bloggers: peace activists, greenies and Maori rights agitators training together in secret terrorist camps plotting to blow up and murder the innocent!<br \/>\nExcept <a href=http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/4238342a10.html>that was pretty much the story the police told of their unprecedented raid today<\/a>.<br \/>\nMelanie Jones&#8217; original article said that &#8220;peace&#8221; groups were implicated &#8211; her quote marks. This is gone from the newest version, but for most of the day this comment remained. Is there a fake peace group in New Zealand? Or a peace group that has so lost its way that it thinks armed terror is legitimate? Of everything that came out today, this bit was the most mind-boggling to me.<br \/>\nJudging by the number of times people found this blog by searching on their name, it seems a high-profile peace campaigner was one of the arrested parties. I&#8217;ve never met them but find it hard to believe they would be smuggling grenades into a remote camp or participating in weapons training there.<br \/>\nBut I could be wrong. Something&#8217;s definitely up. I await more information.<br \/>\n&#8212;<br \/>\nElsewhere, Salon has an article <a href=http:\/\/www.salon.com\/opinion\/feature\/2007\/10\/12\/electoral_college\/>calling for the abolition of the US electoral college<\/a>. This has been <a href=http:\/\/www.additiverich.com\/morgue\/archives\/000435.html>a longstanding interest of mine<\/a>. Electoral reform is perhaps the most important battle that progressive movements need to fight &#8211; check out the article if this stuff gets you thinking too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It sounds like the excited fever dream of the rightest of right-wing bloggers: peace activists, greenies and Maori rights agitators training together in secret terrorist camps plotting to blow up and murder the innocent! Except that was pretty much the story the police told of their unprecedented raid today. Melanie Jones&#8217; original article said that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=651\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NZ Terror Raids<\/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,"_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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-av","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651","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=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}