{"id":354,"date":"2006-12-21T06:38:34","date_gmt":"2006-12-20T20:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=354"},"modified":"2006-12-21T10:15:30","modified_gmt":"2006-12-21T00:15:30","slug":"innocent-until-declared-guilty-by-morris-iemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=354","title":{"rendered":"Innocent until declared guilty&#8230; by Morris Iemma"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Who's the comic?\" alt=\"Who's the comic?\" src=\"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/blogimages\/iemma_laurel.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Morrie and Stan: Separated at birth?<\/em><\/div>\n<p>If the results of screwup after screwup in the NSW Labor government weren&#8217;t so tragic, they&#8217;d be high comedy.<\/p>\n<p>Premya Yemma has for the second time in a scant few weeks discharged a NSW Labor MP who has been accused of improprieties, but not convicted of any offence.<\/p>\n<p>Former NSW Aboriginal Affairs Minister Milton Orkopolous stands <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/national\/teen-sex-on-the-taxpayers\/2006\/11\/08\/1162661724577.html\">accused of child sex offences<\/a> and Steven Chaytor, MP for Macquarie Fields, has been <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/national\/premier-dumps-mp-over-assault\/2006\/12\/20\/1166290613823.html\">arrested and charged<\/a> in a domestic violence case. Though neither has been tried or convicted, both have been sacked by Iemma.<\/p>\n<p>How does this make Morrie any better than NSW Liberal leader <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/national\/not-drowning-just-waving\/2006\/09\/01\/1156817102739.html\">Peter <em><strong>(who?)<\/strong><\/em> Debnam<\/a>, who in the wake of the Cronulla riots, threatened to get &#8216;200 Lebanese thugs off the street&#8217; by &#8216;arresting them and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/national\/police-to-debnam--thug-plan-not-arresting\/2006\/07\/19\/1153166455327.html\">charging them with anything<\/a>&#8216;?<\/p>\n<p>Why there&#8217;s so much disrespect for due process in the NSW Labor party is beyond me&#8230; but this much I&#8217;ll tell ya- it&#8217;s not a vote getter.<\/p>\n<p>-weez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morrie and Stan: Separated at birth? If the results of screwup after screwup in the NSW Labor government weren&#8217;t so tragic, they&#8217;d be high comedy. Premya Yemma has for the second time in a scant few weeks discharged a NSW Labor MP who has been accused of improprieties, but not convicted of any offence. Former [&hellip;]<\/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-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","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=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}