{"id":57132,"date":"2021-03-16T08:57:04","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T13:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=57132"},"modified":"2021-03-16T09:20:52","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T14:20:52","slug":"the-consent-of-the-governed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=57132","title":{"rendered":"The Consent of the Governed"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"post-header title-container fix\">\n<div class=\"title\">\n<h3 class=\"posttitle\"><a class=\"entry-title\" title=\"The Consent of the Governed\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theautomaticearth.com\/2021\/03\/the-consent-of-the-governed\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">The Consent of the Governed<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-container fix\">\n<div class=\"entry fix\"><center><a href=\"https:\/\/mymodernmet.com\/marc-chagall-paintings\/\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theautomaticearth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Chagallpeace-window1967.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nMark Chagall\u00a0<b>Peace window, UN\u00a0<\/b>1967<\/center><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theautomaticearth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/HorLine300px.png\" \/><\/center>In Holland Sunday, a protest demonstration against government Covid policies provoked a emergency order from that same government against thousands of people gathering in a place to \u2026 protest. The police and government had only \u201callowed\u201d 200 demonstrators. So the government \u201callowed\u201d a protest against itself, but demanded the right to determine where, how, and with how many people it could take place. But that\u2019s not really a protest, is it? The police deployed dogs, horses and water cannons to disperse the crowd.In Greece, a video appeared last Sunday of a policeman severely beating a man. Protests against that have occurred daily since. The prime minister spoke out against the protests, not the policeman. That made people even angrier. And then he proposed a \u201cpolice reform\u201d law. Yeah. And everybody lived happily ever after. But under heavy restrictions.In the UK, a peaceful vigil for a woman kidnapped and murdered -by a policeman!- was broken up by police Saturday because there was \u201cno permission\u201d given for it. Several women were handcuffed and dragged across the pavement. Meanwhile, the government is introducing a \u201cpolice reform\u201d law (they\u2019re popular these days!) that would impose conditions even on one-person protests. And protesters can\u2019t make noise. And so much police will be deployed that it may become too costly to \u201callow\u201d the protest.<\/p>\n<p>In Canberra, capital of Australia, 10s of 1000s protested because of a rape scandal inside government buildings. Good thing the restrictions were recently eased, or the same government that\u2019s so busy trying to hide the scandal would have not \u201callowed\u201d the protest.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><center>\u00a0<\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Consent of the Governed Mark Chagall\u00a0Peace window, UN\u00a01967In Holland Sunday, a protest demonstration against government Covid policies provoked a emergency order from that same government against thousands of people gathering in a place to \u2026 protest. The police and government had only \u201callowed\u201d 200 demonstrators. So the government \u201callowed\u201d a protest against itself, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[12778,29341,31042,1561,31043,31044,31045,657,13924,31046,5177,22139],"class_list":["post-57132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-basic-rights","tag-covid","tag-drug-pushers","tag-extremism","tag-inalienable-rights","tag-measures","tag-police-reform","tag-protests","tag-raul-ilargi-meijer","tag-restrictions","tag-the-automatic-earth","tag-vigil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57132"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57134,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57132\/revisions\/57134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}