{"id":477,"date":"2008-03-12T10:25:52","date_gmt":"2008-03-12T00:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=477"},"modified":"2008-03-12T10:34:49","modified_gmt":"2008-03-12T00:34:49","slug":"chasers-going-to-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=477","title":{"rendered":"Chasers going to trial!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/blogimages\/chaser_fakepasses_reuters.jpg\" height=\"286\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/story\/0,23599,23361400-29277,00.html\">date has been set<\/a> for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/national\/chasers-face-apec-trial\/2008\/03\/12\/1205125962824.html\">trial of eleven actors and staffers<\/a> of ABC&#8217;s <em>The Chaser&#8217;s War On Everything<\/em>, who famously breached APEC security cordons in a fake Canadian diplomatic motorcade, getting within metres of Shrubya&#8217;s hotel, with Chas dressed as Osama bin Laden.<\/p>\n<p>I do have the feeling that the Iemma govt will regret bringing this to trial.  Give the Chasers a platform and they will put you on it and make you look stoopid. Iemma needs <em><strong>no<\/strong><\/em> help in that regard. A trial will also allow discovery of certain materials from the cops, which will give an insight into the heavy-handed <a href=\"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=442\">policing farce<\/a> that was the Sydney <a href=\"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=440\">APEC summit<\/a>, some of which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/national\/tough-police-powers-outlive-apec\/2008\/03\/11\/1205125911459.html\">won&#8217;t seem to go away<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Let the games begin!<\/p>\n<p>-weez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A date has been set for the trial of eleven actors and staffers of ABC&#8217;s The Chaser&#8217;s War On Everything, who famously breached APEC security cordons in a fake Canadian diplomatic motorcade, getting within metres of Shrubya&#8217;s hotel, with Chas dressed as Osama bin Laden. I do have the feeling that the Iemma govt will [&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-477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477","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=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}