{"id":252,"date":"2007-03-09T18:03:52","date_gmt":"2007-03-09T09:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wombathole.com\/dili-gence\/?p=252"},"modified":"2007-03-09T18:03:52","modified_gmt":"2007-03-09T09:03:52","slug":"another-really-quiet-day-what-gives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/?p=252","title":{"rendered":"Another really quiet day &#8211; what gives ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before de-stressing in the time honoured Friday evening fashion, another day seems to have (almost) passed without incident (of note).<\/p>\n<p>If I had been compulsorily evacuated to Darwin, I would be wondering what gives.<\/p>\n<p>Firstly, the heightening of security concerns was driven by :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>weeks of daily rock throwing, broken glass and lots of sleeplessness<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>threats against Australian citizens<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>fear of a backlash after the failure to capture Major Alfredo<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>fear of a backlash after the Rogerio Lobato verdict<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>fear that the return of armed F-FDTL to the streets would lead to trouble (kiddies, I am going to add a glossary to the blog soon to explain why the first F does not mean procreate)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>fear that things would get worse in the run-up to the election<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So you shuffle off to Darwin with your 10kgs and wait &#8230; nothing.\u00a0 So I go running this morning &#8230; nothing.\u00a0 So I go cycling this afternoon &#8230; nothing.\u00a0 The tension on people&#8217;s faces &#8230; gone.\u00a0 What gives ?<\/p>\n<p>Someone said one of today&#8217;s papers said whoever has been paying the gangs has run out of money.\u00a0 Could be.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the Rogerio Lobato verdict did hit the sweet spot and convince people that the justice system actually does work in the end.\u00a0 Although Lobato&#8217;s lawyer says the sentence is unfair (too long), another politician said it was also unfair (too short).<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the return of armed F-FDTL to the streets has put the fear of god into people, because in the crunch, people believe they have weapons and will use them.\u00a0 I also noted armed UIR (PNTL rapid reaction force police) on the streets today.\u00a0 <strike><em>Keep all digits in rest position he tells himself &#8230; you are not at home.<\/em><\/strike><\/p>\n<p>Maybe the threat of a state of emergency and some interesting adjustments to police powers, threats of curfews and restrictions on civil liberties have done it.<\/p>\n<p>Some think it is the calm before the storm.\u00a0 Time to de-stress.\u00a0 Tomorrow is a another day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before de-stressing in the time honoured Friday evening fashion, another day seems to have (almost) passed without incident (of note). If I had been compulsorily evacuated to Darwin, I would be wondering what gives. Firstly, the heightening of security concerns &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/?p=252\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}