{"id":85,"date":"2006-08-25T11:10:52","date_gmt":"2006-08-25T11:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jmatt.net\/?p=85"},"modified":"2013-11-28T02:37:57","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T02:37:57","slug":"the-terrorists-have-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=85","title":{"rendered":"The Terrorists have won"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The news for the last few days indicates a severe casualty in the war on terror.  The latest victim is the collective sanity of an entire society.  Without even trying very hard, the terrorists, with a little help from our government (or do I have that backwards?) have driven us all crazy.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I suppose most people are aware of the rampant insanity in air travel. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.7days.ae\/2006\/08\/21\/muslims-forced-off-flights.html\" Target=\"Offsite\">Flying while Muslim<\/a> has become a serious offense, and having a beard or speaking Arabic is all the evidence one needs to be suspected of this dastardly crime.<br \/>\nAnd the number of flights disrupted just <b>today<\/b> because someone felt terrorized keeps changing, but the latest count seems to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wkyc.com\/news\/news_article.aspx?storyid=56082\" Target=\"Offsite\">six<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\nMeanwhile, back on the ground, closer to home, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kentucky.com\/mld\/heraldleader\/news\/15356602.htm\" Target=\"Offsite\">an incident<\/a>  that probably didn&#8217;t make national news, but is just about as stupid. For about 4 hours, part of Lexington was blocked off, homes were evacuated, streets were closed, schools were locked down, bomb squads were called out.  Why?  Because somebody was seen wandering around in a part of a building where he didn&#8217;t belong.  And later, employees in the building, which housed a fitness center among other businesses, found a stopwatch.  There was no positive connection between the suspicious character and the suspicious stopwatch, but obviously a stopwatch lying around near a fitness center couldn&#8217;t have been just accidentally dropped there by someone working out.  It&#8217;s a damn good thing people were alert enough to realize the potential danger of a stopwatch called for drastic action.<\/p>\n<p>\nWhen a town can  be paralyzed with just a stopwatch, the terrorists have definitely won.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The news for the last few days indicates a severe casualty in the war on terror. The latest victim is the collective sanity of an entire society. Without even trying very hard, the terrorists, with a little help from our government (or do I have that backwards?) have driven us all crazy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9mOtr-1n","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}