{"id":11883,"date":"2015-12-04T23:08:27","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T23:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11883"},"modified":"2015-12-04T23:08:27","modified_gmt":"2015-12-04T23:08:27","slug":"yes-it-was-a-terrorist-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11883","title":{"rendered":"Yes &#8230; it was a terrorist act"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/terrorism1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11884\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/terrorism1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"terrorism1\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/terrorism1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/terrorism1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/terrorism1.jpg 950w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s stop pussyfooting around a certain word regarding the San Bernardino, Calif., massacre.<\/p>\n<p>It was an act of terrorism. There can be no doubt, zero, of that &#8212; in my view.<\/p>\n<p>Whether it was &#8220;workplace violence,&#8221; the culmination of a terrible argument gone\u00a0tragically \u00a0wrong, or the doings of a young couple persuaded to follow the rhetoric preached by religious fanatics, what the suspects did was terrorize the nation.<\/p>\n<p>They gunned down more than 30 people. Fourteen of them died.<\/p>\n<p>The nation is now asking: Did this young couple represent the Islamic State or some other ruthless cabal of terror?<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the motive turns out to be, they have managed to accomplish a singular goal. They have frightened a community out of its wits and have terrorized a nation looking for answers on how to stop this spasm of brutality.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s what terrorists &#8212; be they domestic or foreign-born &#8212; always do.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s stop pussyfooting around a certain word regarding the San Bernardino, Calif., massacre. It was an act of terrorism. There can be no doubt, zero, of that &#8212; in my view. Whether it was &#8220;workplace violence,&#8221; the culmination of a terrible argument gone\u00a0tragically \u00a0wrong, or the doings of a young couple persuaded to follow the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11883\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yes &#8230; it was a terrorist act<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2348,5706,4562],"class_list":["post-11883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-isis","tag-san-bernardino-shooting","tag-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11885,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11883\/revisions\/11885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}