{"id":13122,"date":"2021-09-21T09:15:11","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T23:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/?p=13122"},"modified":"2021-09-21T09:15:21","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T23:15:21","slug":"us-republicans-call-for-sanctions-against-australia-over-police-treatment-of-protesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/us-republicans-call-for-sanctions-against-australia-over-police-treatment-of-protesters\/","title":{"rendered":"US Republicans call for sanctions against Australia over police treatment of protesters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/535316-us-republicans-sanctions-australia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">RT<\/a> &#8211; 20 Sep, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"787\" height=\"442\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/us-republicans2.jpg?resize=787%2C442&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13123\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/us-republicans2.jpg?w=787&amp;ssl=1 787w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/us-republicans2.jpg?resize=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/us-republicans2.jpg?resize=768%2C431&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 787px) 100vw, 787px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption>A protester is pushed to the ground by the police during an anti-lockdown rally in Melbourne on September 18, 2021 \u00a9\u00a0AFP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>American Republicans called on the United States to impose sanctions against Australia this week in response to several cases of Australian police officers violently attacking \u2018unauthorized protesters\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Sunday, Ben Kew \u2013 the English editor of the conservative Florida-based publication El American \u2013 declared in an <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/elamerican.com\/world-must-act-australia-descends-into-despotism\/\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> that Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison <em>\u201cmust be made to pay for such flagrant human rights violations\u201d<\/em> that have taken place against protesters and other Australians through the use of strict Covid-19 lockdown restrictions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What is taking place in Australia is unprecedented. This once thriving liberal democracy now more closely resembles a tyrannical regime. Whether it be through sanctions, boycotts or mere diplomatic warnings, the world must act.<br><br>My column for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ElAmerican_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@elamerican_<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7XDzCObXhd\">https:\/\/t.co\/7XDzCObXhd<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Ben Kew \ud83c\udfcc\ufe0f\u200d\u2642\ufe0f (@ben_kew) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ben_kew\/status\/1439718540785770499?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 19, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/535316-us-republicans-sanctions-australia\/\" target=\"_blank\">RT<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RT &#8211; 20 Sep, 2021 American Republicans called on the United States to impose sanctions against Australia this week in response to several cases of Australian police officers violently attacking \u2018unauthorized protesters\u2019. On Sunday, Ben Kew \u2013 the English editor of the conservative Florida-based publication El American \u2013 declared in an article that Australian Prime&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/us-republicans-call-for-sanctions-against-australia-over-police-treatment-of-protesters\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US Republicans call for sanctions against Australia over police treatment of protesters<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7,198,97,151,214,769,27,8],"tags":[38,1006,5,2008,226,2309,3323,318,523,3720,4024,3680,222,270,10,310,531,41,237,1272,2607,954,574,42,29,4023,1406,1928],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/us-republicans2.jpg?fit=787%2C442&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13124,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13122\/revisions\/13124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}