{"id":8294,"date":"2015-02-22T16:13:44","date_gmt":"2015-02-22T16:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8294"},"modified":"2015-02-22T16:13:44","modified_gmt":"2015-02-22T16:13:44","slug":"vigilance-required-even-right-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8294","title":{"rendered":"Vigilance required &#8230; even right here"},"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>If the 9\/11 attacks more than a dozen years ago taught Americans anything it all, they should teach us to be on high alert no matter where we live and what we&#8217;re doing.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, warnings to mall shoppers have gone out across the country in the wake of a threat made against The Mall of America by an al-Qaeda affiliate, Al-Shabaab.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, that means Westgate Mall in little ol&#8217; Amarillo, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/02\/21\/us\/al-shabaab-calls-for-mall-attacks\/index.html<\/p>\n<p>Al-Shabaab has threatened to strike malls in three western countries. Department of Homeland Security officials take the threat seriously. The Mall of America is in Minneapolis, which is home to a large Somali immigrant population. The Twin Cities region also reportedly has produced many recruits who&#8217;ve signed up to fight with Islamic State and other terrorist organizations.<\/p>\n<p>Make no mistake, these threats go right to the heart of where we need to be alert. Malls represent &#8212; to many people around the world &#8212; some elements of American excess. Americans, of course, do not see it that way, nor should we. Do we stop doing business at these places just because a terrorist group has leveled a threat? Of course not.<\/p>\n<p>But these monstrous organizations have shown how seriously the world must take their threats.<\/p>\n<p>The 9\/11 assault should stand as proof that these organizations mean business.<\/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>If the 9\/11 attacks more than a dozen years ago taught Americans anything it all, they should teach us to be on high alert no matter where we live and what we&#8217;re doing. Thus, warnings to mall shoppers have gone out across the country in the wake of a threat made against The Mall of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8294\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vigilance required &#8230; even right here<\/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":[5,13],"tags":[222,224,1353,2874,3082,5238],"class_list":["post-8294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","category-national-news","tag-al-qaeda","tag-al-shabaab","tag-department-of-homeland-security","tag-mall-of-america","tag-minneapolis","tag-westgate-mall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8294","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=8294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}