{"id":171,"date":"2005-11-09T18:04:16","date_gmt":"2005-11-09T18:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/blog\/?p=171"},"modified":"2005-11-09T18:04:16","modified_gmt":"2005-11-09T18:04:16","slug":"small-victory-for-civil-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/2005\/11\/09\/small-victory-for-civil-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Victory for Civil Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was heartened today to see Blair&#8217;s draconian plan to allow terror suspects be detained for 90 days without charge defeated in the House of Commons. It was reduced to 28 days which is still a long time that the police can hold you without providing any evidence to anyone but it is dramatically better than 90! It&#8217;s great to see British MPs being smart enough not to over-react to the London bombings in the same way as American lawmakers did to 9-11 by agreeing to Bush&#8217;s truly medieval Patriot Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was heartened today to see Blair&#8217;s draconian plan to allow terror suspects be detained for 90 days without charge defeated in the House of Commons. It was reduced to 28 days which is still a long time that the police can hold you without providing any evidence to anyone but it is dramatically better [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[6],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t9xK-2L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}