{"id":505,"date":"2005-09-30T11:21:58","date_gmt":"2005-09-30T16:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=505"},"modified":"2009-03-21T11:26:22","modified_gmt":"2009-03-21T16:26:22","slug":"reactions-to-labours-treatment-of-the-heckler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2005\/09\/30\/reactions-to-labours-treatment-of-the-heckler\/","title":{"rendered":"Reactions to Labour&#8217;s treatment of the heckler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nThe BBC have, as is their wont, been <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/talking_point\/4292918.stm\">collecting responses<\/a> to the treatment of that 82 year old heckler at Jack Straw&#8217;s speech at the Labour Conference. Some interesting points were made and much of the usual know-nothing rightwing blather was absent. Sure, there are some confused souls who think political speeches are like sermons and it&#8217;s impolite to heckle, but the overwhelming majority is both angry and scared at the treatment of this man, especially his subsequent arrest under the prevention of terrorism act.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe following response I thought hit the nail on the head:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"cite\"><p>\nThe key issue here is that laws promoted as defending us from murderous fanatics are already being used to suppress anti-Government opinion. To look at this issue as being about anything else &#8211; the quality of stewarding, the rights and wrongs of heckling etc &#8211; is to dangerously miss the point.<br \/>\nChandra, England\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nAll in all, even with the swift almost-apology issued by Tony Blair, it seems Labour has shot itself firmly in the foot with this incident, awaking a lot of people to the dangers of this government which preaches a lot about democracy and respect, but does not practise either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC have, as is their wont, been collecting responses to the treatment of that 82 year old heckler at Jack Straw&#8217;s speech at the Labour Conference. Some interesting points were made and much of the usual know-nothing rightwing blather was absent. Sure, there are some confused souls who think political speeches are like sermons [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[321,120],"tags":[322,122],"class_list":["post-505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autoritarianism","category-nu-labour","tag-heckling","tag-jack-straw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":506,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions\/506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}