{"id":204,"date":"2003-08-22T17:58:42","date_gmt":"2003-08-22T07:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/?p=204"},"modified":"2003-08-22T17:58:42","modified_gmt":"2003-08-22T07:58:42","slug":"choose-molestation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/2003\/08\/22\/choose-molestation","title":{"rendered":"Choose Molestation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s certainly something wrong <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/common\/story_page\/0,4057,7018903%255E2,00.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 2003\/08\/22:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/newsitems\/s929717.htm\">John Howard&#8217;s reaction<\/a> to Pauline Hanson&#8217;s sentence:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Like many other Australians, on the face of it, it does seem [to me] a very long unconditional sentence for what she&#8217;s alleged to have done,&#8221; [Howard] said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/newsitems\/s930176.htm\">Peter Beattie&#8217;s response<\/a> to that:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Mr Beattie says politicians should stop commenting on the sentence.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have never seen so many gutless wimps in my life, running around like scalded cats trying to position themselves for political gain,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just simply say to everybody, and I&#8217;ve noticed it at a federal level and I see it at a state level, I just say to all of them, have some respect for the courts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>How dare politicians launch personal attacks and silence debate like that? I blame John Ashcroft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s certainly something wrong here. UPDATE 2003\/08\/22: John Howard&#8217;s reaction to Pauline Hanson&#8217;s sentence: &#8220;Like many other Australians, on the face of it, it does seem [to me] a very long unconditional sentence for what she&#8217;s alleged to have done,&#8221; [Howard] said. Peter Beattie&#8217;s response to that: Mr Beattie says politicians should stop commenting on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}