{"id":669,"date":"2007-11-09T00:20:20","date_gmt":"2007-11-09T00:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=669"},"modified":"2007-11-09T00:20:20","modified_gmt":"2007-11-09T00:20:20","slug":"friday-linky-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=669","title":{"rendered":"Friday Linky"},"content":{"rendered":"

Best thing I’ve read all week on the Urewera Terror Raids: Stephen’s overview (part one<\/a>, part two<\/a>) of the complex situation. This is how he sets the tone:<\/p>\n

I think the biggest source of confusion for me is that there are lots of different serious things in play here. Here’s my little outline:
\n* The Terrorism Suppression Act and its pending amendment
\n* Civil liberties and human rights
\n* Violence
\n* Maori sovereignty
\n* Race relations
\n* The NZ Police force
\n* Protest and politics
\n* Administration of justice
\nOn some of these heads, eg the Terrorism Suppression Act, I feel fairly confident that I know what’s what and that I know where I personally stand. And some of the others are in play and I’m not prepared to commit until I feel I know what’s going on.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s a great account of all the crazy stuff caught up in this issue. Non-Kiwis won’t have heard that the Solicitor General has refused to give leave to prosecute under the Terror Suppression Act, which is good to hear, because it implies there isn’t actually a group of terrorists in this country. But bear in mind the words of the clockwork fish<\/a>:<\/p>\n

It occurs to me that the SG’s comment that the activities of the activists were worrying was based on the uncontested evidence of the police. He may have had a different view if the activists had been able to put their side of things.
\nInstead he pretty much said they were guilty but the cops wouldn’t get a conviction. This gives the activists no right of reply except in the media.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Via the other moose<\/a>, Project Censored’s most-censored stories of 2008<\/a>. Always, always worth reading, especially for the surprising fact that the FBI’s most wanted profile of Bin Laden doesn’t mention 9\/11, because they don’t actually have enough evidence to link him to that. Go see.
\nVia mytholder<\/a>, the Holy Tango of Literature<\/a>, in which Francis Heaney finds anagrams of the names of poets and playwrights, and then writes in the style of the person using the anagram as a title. So, for example:
\nAH, MY YAK ROAM<\/strong>
\nOMAR KHAYYAM<\/strong>
\nI
\nBehold! I tend a Herd of woolly Yak
\nThat wander o’er the Hills in one great Pack:
\nBut Lo! the Yak have vanished in the Night,
\nAnd God alone knows if they shall come back.
\nII
\nDreaming on the Hillside where I lay
\nI heard a soothing Voice within me say
\n“Fear not, my Child, if you will leave them be,
\nThe Dawn will bring them as it brings the Day.”
\nIII
\nAnd, as the Cock crew, Light did reach my Eyes
\nAnd silhouette my Yak against the Skies.
\nThey lumbered down to meet me at the Lake,
\nTheir Tails behind them, swishing at the Flies.
\nThere is much there to enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Best thing I’ve read all week on the Urewera Terror Raids: Stephen’s overview (part one, part two) of the complex situation. This is how he sets the tone: I think the biggest source of confusion for me is that there are lots of different serious things in play here. Here’s my little outline: * The … Continue reading Friday Linky<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-669","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-aN","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669","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=669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}