{"id":52908,"date":"2022-09-12T19:04:10","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T19:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=52908"},"modified":"2022-09-12T19:04:10","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T19:04:10","slug":"terrorism-you-bet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=52908","title":{"rendered":"Terrorism? You bet!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I felt compelled to look up the term “terrorism” in my handy-dandy, dog-eared American Heritage Dictionary.<\/p>\n

I found this: “Terrorism, (n): the political use of violence or intimidation”<\/em><\/p>\n

Fascinating, yes? I think it is.<\/p>\n

We just went through a weekend in which we commemorated the bloodiest act of terrorism ever committed on U.S. soil. The 9\/11 attack in reality was an act of war and we responded initially in righteous anger.<\/p>\n

Then came the events of 1\/6, an insurrection committed against the U.S. government by a riotous mob of traitors who stormed the Capitol and sought to prevent the certification of a duly conducted U.S. presidential election.<\/p>\n

Both events, while different in their scope and level of carnage, had one thing in common. They both were “political” acts that used “violence and intimidation” against their victims.<\/p>\n

So, when we refer to the 1\/6 attack on our government, let’s be sure to understand what it was and what it intended to do.<\/p>\n

It was a terrorist act meant to frighten government officials into doing something they weren’t empowered to do.<\/p>\n

And to think that the assault came at the behest of an individual who took an oath to protect and defend the very government he later would attack.<\/p>\n

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I felt compelled to look up the term “terrorism” in my handy-dandy, dog-eared American Heritage Dictionary. I found this: “Terrorism, (n): the political use of violence or intimidation” Fascinating, yes? I think it is. We just went through a weekend in which we commemorated the bloodiest act of terrorism ever committed on U.S. soil. The … Continue reading Terrorism? You bet!<\/span> →<\/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":[13,14],"tags":[7225,2280,4562],"class_list":["post-52908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-2020-election","tag-insurrection","tag-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52908","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=52908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52909,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52908\/revisions\/52909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}