{"id":1400,"date":"2004-04-12T16:04:26","date_gmt":"2004-04-12T15:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2004\/04\/12\/id_cards_and_guilt_by_association"},"modified":"2004-04-12T16:04:26","modified_gmt":"2004-04-12T15:04:26","slug":"id_cards_and_guilt_by_association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2004\/04\/12\/id_cards_and_guilt_by_association","title":{"rendered":"ID cards and guilt by association"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of useful articles on the dangerously authoritarian tendencies of our current Home Secretary, David Blunkett:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/terrorism\/story\/0,12780,1189863,00.html\">Now        Blunkett plans to jail friends of terrorist suspects<\/a> &#8211; Blunkett plans to jail people for merely associating with a suspected terrorist.  In yesterday&#8217;s Observer.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article.php?table=old&#038;section=current&#038;issue=2004-04-10&#038;id=4485\">Contempt for liberty<\/a> &#8211; Peter Hitchens on the danger to law-abiding citizens of Blunkett&#8217;s proposed ID card scheme.  In the current Spectator (you&#8217;ll need to register; it&#8217;s free).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of useful articles on the dangerously authoritarian tendencies of our current Home Secretary, David Blunkett: Now Blunkett plans to jail friends of terrorist suspects &#8211; Blunkett plans to jail people for merely&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-mA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}