{"id":177597,"date":"2019-08-08T19:04:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T00:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/08\/08\/missing-the-point-3\/"},"modified":"2019-08-08T19:04:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T00:04:00","slug":"missing-the-point-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/08\/08\/missing-the-point-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing the Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at <i>Five Thirty Eight, where myopically examining data is increasingly their brand, Maggie Koerth-Baker concludes that <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/no-terrorist-is-a-lone-wolf\/\">there are no &#8220;lone wolf&#8221; terrorists<\/a>, because they are all tied into the white supremacist community.<\/p>\n<p>This misses the point:  Random, but statistically predictable, acts of terrorism are actually a part of a deliberate strategy.<\/p>\n<p>The right wing in general, and white supremacists in particular, knows that there will be a baseline level of random violence against their targets as a result of their social structure and rhetoric, and they plan on this.<\/p>\n<p>This has been true since pseudo-random terrorists started fire-bombing abortion clinics in the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>I am not alone in this, the very first comment on this article use3 the term, &#8220;Stochastic Terrorism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Terror with plausible deniability is a conscious goal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Five Thirty Eight, where myopically examining data is increasingly their brand, Maggie Koerth-Baker concludes that there are no &#8220;lone wolf&#8221; terrorists, because they are all tied into the white supremacist community. This misses the point: Random, but statistically predictable, acts of terrorism are actually a part of a deliberate strategy. The right wing &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[588,494,605,373],"class_list":["post-177597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-fail","tag-statistics","tag-stochastic-terrorism","tag-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177597"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}