{"id":26494,"date":"2015-04-15T01:00:59","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T05:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=26494"},"modified":"2024-12-03T16:07:22","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T21:07:22","slug":"qotd-the-secret-weapon-of-the-bureaucracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/04\/15\/qotd-the-secret-weapon-of-the-bureaucracy\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The secret weapon of the bureaucracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8230; boredom is the deadly secret weapon of the <em>bien-pensant<\/em> technocrats of the EU and the UN. &#8220;They wear outsiders down with the tedium of their arguments and the smallness of their fine print, so that by the time anyone else notices what they&#8217;re up to the damage has been done and it&#8217;s too late to do anything about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>James Delingpole, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/Breitbart-London\/2014\/06\/25\/Green-global-governance-how-environmentalists-have-taken-over-the-world\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Green Global Governance: How Environmentalists Have Taken Over the World&#8221;, <em>Breitbart.com<\/em><\/a>, 2014-06-25.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; boredom is the deadly secret weapon of the bien-pensant technocrats of the EU and the UN. &#8220;They wear outsiders down with the tedium of their arguments and the smallness of their fine print, so that by the time anyone else notices what they&#8217;re up to the damage has been done and it&#8217;s too late [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":[8,84,41],"tags":[337,442,1574,691],"class_list":["post-26494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-government","category-quotations","tag-eu","tag-ngos","tag-technocracy","tag-unitednations"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6Tk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26495,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26494\/revisions\/26495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}