{"id":319640,"date":"2017-07-31T13:28:21","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T12:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/fanciful-terrors-bomb-plots-and-australian-airport-security\/"},"modified":"2017-07-31T13:28:21","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T12:28:21","slug":"fanciful-terrors-bomb-plots-and-australian-airport-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/fanciful-terrors-bomb-plots-and-australian-airport-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Fanciful Terrors: Bomb Plots and Australian Airport Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>In the classroom of international security, Australia remains an infant wanting attention before the older hands.\u00a0 During the Paris Peace talks, Prime Minister William Morris (\u201cBilly\u201d) Hughes screamed and hollered Australia\u2019s wishes to gain greater concessions after its losses during the Great War, urging, among other things, a more punitive settlement for Germany.<\/p>\n<p>In the post-September 2001 age, recognition comes in different forms, notably in the field of terrorism.\u00a0 Australian authorities want recognition from their international partners; Australian security services demand attention from their peers.\u00a0 The premise of this call is simple if masochistic: Australia is worth torching, bombing and assailing, its values, however obscure, vulnerable before a massive, inchoate threat shrouded in obscurantism.<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, the security services again displayed why adding fuel to the fire of recognition remains a burning lust for the Australian security complex.\u00a0 The inner-city suburb of Surry Hills in Sydney, and the south-western suburbs of Lakemba, Wiley and Punchbowl, witnessed raids and seizures of material that could be used to make an improvised explosive device.<\/p>\n<p>What was notable here was the domesticity behind the alleged plot. Focus was specific to Surry Hills in what was supposedly an attempt to create an IED involving a domestic grinder and box containing a multi-mincer.\u00a0 At stages, those with a culinary inclination might have been confused:&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2017\/07\/fanciful-terrors-bomb-plots-and-australian-airport-security\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the classroom of international security, Australia remains an infant wanting attention before the older hands.\u00a0 During the Paris Peace talks, Prime Minister William Morris (\u201cBilly\u201d) Hughes screamed and hollered Australia\u2019s wishes to gain greater concessions after its losses during the Great War, urging, among other things, a more punitive settlement for Germany. In the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-319640","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}