{"id":1529,"date":"2002-12-03T13:44:13","date_gmt":"2002-12-03T13:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/?p=1529"},"modified":"2010-04-03T13:46:42","modified_gmt":"2010-04-03T13:46:42","slug":"david-the-detainee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/2002\/12\/03\/david-the-detainee\/","title":{"rendered":"David the detainee"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>by Jim Aitken<\/h2>\n<p>Each night last week<br \/>\nI have caught his eyes<br \/>\npleading for<br \/>\nsupport and understanding<\/p>\n<p>Daily detainees<br \/>\nfor being himself<br \/>\nsaying the wrong things<br \/>\nthat he thought were right<\/p>\n<p>Speaking out of turn<br \/>\nhis essential self<br \/>\nexpressing himself<br \/>\namid hostile glares<\/p>\n<p>As they shout him down<br \/>\ndetain him further<br \/>\nfor interfering<br \/>\nwith assessments<\/p>\n<p>The new addiction<br \/>\nof a sick system<br \/>\nscreaming to be free<br \/>\nfrom doses of tasks<\/p>\n<p>And of pointless tests<br \/>\nthat control them all<br \/>\nmould them for the workplace<br \/>\nlike work-house before<\/p>\n<p>I think of Hegel<br \/>\nthe dialectic<br \/>\nof master and slave<br \/>\nneither of them free<\/p>\n<p>Both suffocating<br \/>\nfrom the prescription<br \/>\nto avoid real thought<br \/>\nand open windows<\/p>\n<p>Some of Jim\u2019s writings are in From the Front Line of Terror, published by the Stop the War Coalition &amp; the Palestine Solidarity Campaign. \u00a33 from <acronym title=\"Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign\">SPSC<\/acronym>, Peace &amp; Justice Centre, Princes St., Edinburgh, EH2 4BJ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Jim Aitken Each night last week I have caught his eyes pleading for support and understanding Daily detainees for being himself saying the wrong things that he thought were right Speaking out of turn his essential self expressing himself amid hostile glares As they shout him down detain him further for interfering with assessments&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[6,829],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-1529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emancipation-liberation","category-issue-04","tag-author-jim-aitken"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"views":4054,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1529"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1531,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions\/1531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}