{"id":1784,"date":"2015-09-09T22:49:50","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T02:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=1784"},"modified":"2015-09-09T22:57:35","modified_gmt":"2015-09-10T02:57:35","slug":"tripping-refugee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=1784","title":{"rendered":"Tripping refugee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/EUtrippingrefugee\/EUtrippingrefugee.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/EUtrippingrefugee\/EUtrippingrefugee600w.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"430\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Y&#8217;know, I&#8217;ve seen mainstream media types pull some pretty lowdown stuff in my day. I&#8217;ve heard Chris Matthews telling the antiwar movement it should apologize. I&#8217;ve heard Bill O&#8217;Reilly call the Black Lives Matter movement &#8220;terrorists&#8221;. I&#8217;ve heard a CNN anchordroid acting disappointed at the absence of violence at the premiere of <em>Straight Outta Compton. <\/em>But I&#8217;ve never seen something as rock-bottom piss-poor as the Hungarian TV camerawoman <a href=\"http:\/\/static.standard.co.uk\/s3fs-public\/styles\/story_large\/public\/thumbnails\/image\/2015\/09\/08\/21\/hungary.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">sticking her leg out<\/a> to trip a Syrian war refugee trying to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/news\/world\/camerawoman-fired-after-tripping-refugee-who-was-fleeing-from-police-with-child-in-hungary-a2943061.html\" target=\"_blank\">flee the Roeszke detention camp.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s especially sad about this, though, is that the camerawoman&#8217;s behavior pretty much encapsulates the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/opinion\/2015\/08\/refugee-crisis-exposes-massive-flaws-eu-governance-150826115439854.html\" target=\"_blank\">current policies and attitudes of most EU member states.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>11&#215;14 medium-res <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/EUtrippingrefugee\/EUtrippingrefugee.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">color .jpg image, <\/a>942kb<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Y&#8217;know, I&#8217;ve seen mainstream media types pull some pretty lowdown stuff in my day. I&#8217;ve heard Chris Matthews telling the antiwar movement it should apologize. I&#8217;ve heard Bill O&#8217;Reilly call the Black Lives Matter movement &#8220;terrorists&#8221;. I&#8217;ve heard a CNN anchordroid acting disappointed at the absence of violence at the premiere of Straight Outta Compton. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,82,9],"tags":[675,674,673,522,676],"class_list":["post-1784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-middle-east","category-war-and-peace","tag-camerawoman","tag-hungary","tag-refugees","tag-syria","tag-tripping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1784"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1787,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions\/1787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}