{"id":371,"date":"2007-02-23T06:02:27","date_gmt":"2007-02-22T20:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=371"},"modified":"2007-03-01T14:13:07","modified_gmt":"2007-03-01T04:13:07","slug":"australian-elections-coming-and-coincidentally-so-are-the-boat-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=371","title":{"rendered":"Australian elections coming- and coincidentally, so are the boat people"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"hey, we believe you, Kevvo. \" title=\"hey, we believe you, Kevvo. \" src=\"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/blogimages\/andrews_election_asylumseekers.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t it wonderfully convenient for Johnny Howard that just as soon as election campaigns start ramping up, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/newsitems\/200702\/s1854672.htm\">boat people <em><strong>also<\/strong><\/em> suddenly start being intercepted again<\/a>, heading for Australian territory?<\/p>\n<p>Can you say &#8220;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.truthoverboard.com\/\">Children Overboard<\/a>?&#8221;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nWhy is it that the Howard gubmint, which is <em><strong>SO<\/strong><\/em> good at keeping &#8216;undesirables&#8217; and &#8216;queue jumpers&#8217; off our shores- in <strong><em>between<\/em><\/strong> elections- suddenly lose their touch when elections are on the voting public&#8217;s radar?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fightdemback.org\/forum\/viewtopic.php?p=34240#34240\">not doing too badly on my predictions<\/a> of Howard&#8217;s election strategies lately&#8230; but can&#8217;t the old coot come up with anything <em><strong>new<\/strong><\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>-weez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isn&#8217;t it wonderfully convenient for Johnny Howard that just as soon as election campaigns start ramping up, boat people also suddenly start being intercepted again, heading for Australian territory? Can you say &#8220;Children Overboard?&#8221;<\/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-371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371","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=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}