{"id":185544,"date":"2014-10-15T19:34:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T00:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/10\/15\/not-the-onion-12\/"},"modified":"2014-10-15T19:34:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-16T00:34:00","slug":"not-the-onion-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/10\/15\/not-the-onion-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Not the Onion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 400px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"219\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C8y7usXJ4t4\" width=\"390\"><\/iframe><br \/><i>You can get a slightly translation in the subtitles<\/i><\/div>\n<p>A motorcycle gang from the Netherlands is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.co.uk\/iraq-isis-news-dutch-motorbike-gang-joins-kurdish-troops-fight-against-islamic-state-1470080\">going to Syria to fight ISIS<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Already battling air strikes from the US and its allies, including the UK, terrorist organisation Isis (Islamic State) now have a new threat to look out for \u2013 a motorbike gang from the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p>The Dutch bikers, who go by the name No Surrender, reportedly journeyed to Iraq to fight alongside Kurdish troops against IS militants last week.<\/p>\n<p>Charged with commenting on the legality of that move, the Dutch public prosecutor said that the bikers are not necessarily committing any crime.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutor spokesman <a href=\"https:\/\/newhub.shafaqna.com\/EN\/NN\/5267120\">Wim de Bruin told AFP<\/a>: &#8220;Joining a foreign armed force was previously punishable, now it&#8217;s no longer forbidden.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You just can&#8217;t join a fight against the Netherlands.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If it weren&#8217;t for the likelihood, that they are going to end up on the next ISIS beheading videos, the skills associated with being a bad-ass biker are not necessarily the same as those required for urban or desert warfare against a dedicated foe who is not constrained by the requirements of law enforcement in a western society.<\/p>\n<p>This is not going to end well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can get a slightly translation in the subtitles A motorcycle gang from the Netherlands is going to Syria to fight ISIS: Already battling air strikes from the US and its allies, including the UK, terrorist organisation Isis (Islamic State) now have a new threat to look out for \u2013 a motorbike gang from 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":[962,984,986,982,1027,1098,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-europe","category-middle-east","category-stupid","category-video","category-war","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185544"}],"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=185544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}