{"id":159,"date":"2005-12-10T08:32:46","date_gmt":"2005-12-09T22:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=159"},"modified":"2005-12-10T10:50:20","modified_gmt":"2005-12-10T00:50:20","slug":"crisis-fatigue-a-quick-way-to-silence-dissent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=159","title":{"rendered":"Silencing dissent through crisis fatigue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scottparkin.org\/ask.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"281\" vspace=\"10\" hspace=\"10\" height=\"196\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/blogimages\/ruddock_scottparkin_org.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>image:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottparkin.org\/ask.htm\" target=\"_self\">scottparkin.org<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Atlas had a tough gig. This thought is not lost on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/national\/laws-rushed-through-before-a-nation-notices\/2005\/12\/09\/1134086806842.html\">John Howard and his flying monkeys<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>With a despot for a Prime Minister since 1996, and now with the Lieberals having a bully majority in the Senate, Australian bloggers are hardly starved for choice when it comes to considering <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/newsitems\/200512\/s1528084.htm\">which<\/a> <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/national\/family-vote-clears-way-for-uni-bill\/2005\/12\/09\/1134086806839.html\">government<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/newsitems\/200512\/s1528074.htm\">evil<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/am\/content\/2005\/s1366934.htm\">to<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/national\/cornelia-rau-the-verdict\/2005\/07\/17\/1121538868891.html\">write<\/a> <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/asia-pacific\/4224936.stm\">about<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=157\">next<\/a>. One could write several entries a day and still none could not begin to fully address the fact that Australia is truly on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/articles\/2005\/sep2005\/terr-s12.shtml\" target=\"_self\">road to hell<\/a>&#8211; with no time allotted for debate.  <\/p>\n<p>And Ruddock is STILL wearing that <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/worldtoday\/stories\/s140600.htm\">Amnesty International pin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>-weez&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IR deform, terror laws, VSU, and so on&#8230; and so on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}