{"id":574,"date":"2004-10-21T04:20:47","date_gmt":"2004-10-21T04:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:08:51","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:08:51","slug":"operation_leeds_and_liverpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=574","title":{"rendered":"Operation Leeds and Liverpool"},"content":{"rendered":"

So the Guardian has a self-satisfied column<\/a> on ‘Operation Clark County’.<\/p>\n

What other lessons can we draw from Operation Clark County? I guess we will have to wait till November 3 to find out for sure, but here’s a provisional stab: there are a huge number of people around the world who are profoundly dismayed by the prospect of another four years of a Bush White House and who are desperate for a way to do something about it; Guardian readers are a reassuringly engaged, resourceful and largely charming bunch; parts of America have become so isolationist that even the idea of individuals receiving letters from foreigners is enough to give politicians the collywobbles and, perhaps, in the digital age little acorns can turn into big trees very, very quickly.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In my comment below, I thought it failed the ‘smell test’.<\/p>\n

But now I have a better idea.<\/p>\n

There are a lot more of us in the U.S. than there are of them in the U.K. <\/p>\n

Let’s see what happens when their<\/i> election comes around…<\/p>\n

Any UK readers who can check and see what it takes to get voter rolls from over there?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So the Guardian has a self-satisfied column on ‘Operation Clark County’. What other lessons can we draw from Operation Clark County? I guess we will have to wait till November 3 to find out for sure, but here’s a provisional stab: there are a huge number of people around the world who are profoundly dismayed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}