{"id":15403,"date":"2014-04-15T23:20:28","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T22:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=15403"},"modified":"2014-04-15T23:20:28","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T22:20:28","slug":"magistrate-suspended-for-posing-with-ak-47","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=15403","title":{"rendered":"Magistrate Suspended For Posing With AK-47"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes you couldn\u2019t make it up. I found <a title=\"Derby AK-47 pose magistrate Ajit Atwal suspended\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-derbyshire-27035774\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this on the BBC website<\/a> while I was looking for something else.<\/p>\n<p>Derby magistrate, Ajit Atwal, has been suspended as a result of this photo he had took in India posing with an AK-47 rifle.<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Ajit Atwal and AK-47 pose\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 524px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 524\/296;border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 5px 10px 5px 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Ajit Atwal and AK-47 pose\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ak47_pose.jpg\" width=\"524\" align=\"left\" height=\"296\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\"><\/p>\n<p>You have to wonder what was going through his mind to have had the photo taken at all, and then to post it on Twitter for everyone to see. What was the purpose behind the pose?<\/p>\n<p>You then start to wonder at how he managed to become a magistrate in the first place, and then how he can possibly claim he hasn\u2019t \u201cdone [anything] wrong\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>You also have to wonder at how the police have concluded that no crime has been committed, and how the Liberal Democrats \u2013 of whom Atwal is a member \u2013 have decided to take no further action.<\/p>\n<p>What the hell is this world coming to?<\/p>\n<p>Note that this apparently surfaced some weeks ago and has been covered in the national press. I didn\u2019t see it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes you couldn\u2019t make it up. I found this on the BBC website while I was looking for something else. Derby magistrate, Ajit Atwal, has been suspended as a result of this photo he had took in India posing with an AK-47 rifle. You have to wonder what was going through his mind to have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[102,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-related","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}