{"id":1439,"date":"2007-11-04T22:23:58","date_gmt":"2007-11-04T14:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1439"},"modified":"2009-03-29T19:50:15","modified_gmt":"2009-03-29T11:50:15","slug":"1434-of-where-were-you-when-it-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1439","title":{"rendered":"[1434] Of where were you when it happened?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>KUALA LUMPUR: Anyone who takes part in the illegal gathering on Nov 10 at Dataran Merdeka to demand for a &#8220;fair and clean&#8221; general election will be arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Police will not hesitate to pick up anyone seen in the area where 100,000 people are expected to congregate from 3pm. [<a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2007\/11\/2\/nation\/19359749&amp;sec=nation\" target=\"_blank\"><em>&#8216;Stay away or face arrest&#8217;<\/em><\/a>. The Star. November 2 2007]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Really? It would be amusing to see how the police plan to arrest 100,000 people on that day.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow, I feel, it is reasonable to expect that Kuala Lumpur could witness a repeat of the tragedy in Myanmar; not as crude but the effect on liberty is all the same.<\/p>\n<p>Anything could happen next Saturday. Whatever happens, when it happens, years down the road, the question that will need answering is this: where were you when it happened?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago: KUALA LUMPUR: Anyone who takes part in the illegal gathering on Nov 10 at Dataran Merdeka to demand for a &#8220;fair and clean&#8221; general election will be arrested. Police will not hesitate to pick up anyone seen in the area where 100,000 people are expected to congregate from 3pm. [&#8216;Stay away [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[411,347],"class_list":["post-1439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-bersih","tag-freedom-of-expression"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3335,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions\/3335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}