{"id":1336,"date":"2003-12-02T14:59:02","date_gmt":"2003-12-02T18:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2003\/12\/02\/\/"},"modified":"2003-12-02T14:59:02","modified_gmt":"2003-12-02T18:59:02","slug":"1336","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2003\/12\/1336\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.schnews.org.uk\/archive\/news432.htm\" rel=\"external\">Shnews Article &#8211; MIAMI LICE:<\/a><\/strong><br \/><em>&#8220;It is sometimes easy to forget, in the midst of a furious crowd, that all our liberties were acquired not through polite representation, but by means of insurrection and protest.&#8221;<\/em> ~ George Monbiot<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/no-to-the-FTAA.jpg\" alt=\"Say no to the FTAA\" class=\"oldblogthumb\" \/><strong>While George Bush was telling us Brits how his country values its &ldquo;civil rights&rdquo; and &ldquo;freedom&rdquo; people demonstrating against the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) meeting in Miami were experiencing something a little different.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thousands of militarised police, in full riot gear, armed with everything from tear gas, rubber bullets and bean bags, electrified shields, tanks, water cannons, automatic and semi-automatic weapons, were busy violently arresting peaceful demonstrators, in some cases with tazers, in others at gun point. Busses filled with union members were prevented from joining permitted marches; human rights activists had guns pointed at their heads at military-style checkpoints. Embedded journalists similar to those used in Iraq meant any independent ones were attacked, arrested and had cameras stolen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.schnews.org.uk\/archive\/news432.htm\" rel=\"external\"><em>It gets worse&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shnews Article &#8211; MIAMI LICE:&#8220;It is sometimes easy to forget, in the midst of a furious crowd, that all our liberties were acquired not through polite representation, but by means of insurrection and protest.&#8221; ~ George Monbiot While George Bush was telling us Brits how his country values its &ldquo;civil rights&rdquo; and &ldquo;freedom&rdquo; people demonstrating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}