{"id":178443,"date":"2018-11-25T20:32:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T01:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/11\/25\/an-important-phrase-to-know-stochastic-terrorism\/"},"modified":"2018-11-25T20:32:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T01:32:00","slug":"an-important-phrase-to-know-stochastic-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/11\/25\/an-important-phrase-to-know-stochastic-terrorism\/","title":{"rendered":"An Important Phrase to Know: Stochastic Terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who have never heard the term<a href=\"https:\/\/stochasticterrorism.blogspot.com\/\">Stochastic Terrorism <\/a>, (See also <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stochastic_terrorism\">the Wiki<\/a>) it refers to terrorism that is, &#8220;Statistically predictable but individually unpredictable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What this means is that invocations toward terrorism in the media that are calculated to create &#8220;lone wolf&#8221; actors who will then engage in terrorism to further the aims of the speaker.<\/p>\n<p>When you look at people like Glenn Beck (Tides Foundation), Alex Jones (Everyone), Anwar al-Awlaki (The secular west), and Bill O&#8217;Reilly (George Tiller).<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Reilly publicly called Tiller a, &#8220;Baby Killer,&#8221; and then piously eschewed any responsibility when the doctor was assassinated.<\/p>\n<p>I am far less concerned about Anwar al-Awlaki than I am the rest of them, because the right wing deliberately uses this technique to silence voices from the left.<\/p>\n<p>Liberal talk radio still has yet to recover from the assassination of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alan_Berg\">Alan Berg<\/a> in 1984.<\/p>\n<p>They do this because it works, and no one will stop them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who have never heard the termStochastic Terrorism , (See also the Wiki) it refers to terrorism that is, &#8220;Statistically predictable but individually unpredictable.&#8221; What this means is that invocations toward terrorism in the media that are calculated to create &#8220;lone wolf&#8221; actors who will then engage in terrorism to further the &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":[364,515,385,374,605,373],"class_list":["post-178443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-evil","tag-language","tag-media","tag-politics","tag-stochastic-terrorism","tag-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178443"}],"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=178443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}