{"id":157,"date":"2006-08-25T09:53:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-25T13:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/2006\/08\/25\/stopping-terrorists-we-already-have-the-power\/"},"modified":"2006-08-25T09:53:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-25T13:53:00","slug":"stopping-terrorists-we-already-have-the-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/2006\/08\/25\/stopping-terrorists-we-already-have-the-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Stopping Terrorists – We already have the power…"},"content":{"rendered":"

This article makes more sense than any<\/a>. Terrorists want to cause terror. We go nuts over every little thing and thus, they succeed, even when they fail i.e. the London liquid plane bombers. They were stopped and we still have to bring air traffic to a grinding halt and raise the panic level. The list of panicy non-threats is seemingly endless i.e. the arrest of the “terrorists” who had bought hundreds of cell phones to resell. Oops! They are capitalists, not terrorists!<\/p>\n

We can never win if winning means stopping them. We can always win if winning means not changing our lives to meet their useless threats and feeding them with our hype.<\/p>\n

I don’t mean to get all conspiritorial on ya, but, who benefits from this hightened sense of panic?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This article makes more sense than any. Terrorists want to cause terror. We go nuts over every little thing and thus, they succeed, even when they fail i.e. the London Read More …<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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":"","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":[555],"tags":[383],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kapu-forbidden","tag-terrorism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p731sH-2x","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":148,"url":"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/2006\/08\/07\/terrorism-lets-get-over-it\/","url_meta":{"origin":157,"position":0},"title":"Terrorism – Let’s get over it","author":"Swanky","date":"August 7, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"I have often said that, although it is horrible to those affected, terrorism is really a drop in the bucket. 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