{"id":33201,"date":"2013-04-16T07:50:36","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T13:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/16\/terrorists-fail-when-you-fail-to-be-terrorized.html"},"modified":"2013-04-16T09:03:24","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T15:03:24","slug":"terrorists-fail-when-you-fail-to-be-terrorized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/16\/terrorists-fail-when-you-fail-to-be-terrorized.html","title":{"rendered":"Terrorists fail when you fail to be terrorized"},"content":{"rendered":"
This, from Bruce Schneier:<\/p>\n

'Terrorism, even the terrorism of radical Islamists and right-wing extremists and lone actors all put together, is not an "existential threat" against our nation. Even the events of 9\/11, as horrific as they were, didn't do existential damage to our nation. Our society is more robust than it might seem from watching the news. We need to start acting that way. […]<\/i>\u00a0<\/p>\n

How well this attack succeeds depends much less on what happened in Boston than by our reactions in the coming weeks and months. Terrorism isn't primarily a crime against people or property. It's a crime against our minds, using the deaths of innocents and destruction of property as accomplices. When we react from fear, when we change our laws and policies to make our country less open, the terrorists succeed, even if their attacks fail. But when we refuse to be terrorized, when we're indomitable in the face of terror, the terrorists fail, even if their attacks succeed.'<\/i>\u00a0<\/p>\n

"We have nothing to fear but fear itself." Which is, perhaps, an overgeneralization, but it's much closer to the truth than "The Sky is Falling!"<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Boston Marathon Bombing: Keep Calm and Carry On<\/a>
\n It is easy to feel scared and powerless in the wake of attacks like those at the Boston Marathon. But it also plays into the perpetrators’ hands.\n <\/p>\n

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This, from Bruce Schneier: 'Terrorism, even the terrorism of radical Islamists and right-wing extremists and lone actors all put together, is not an "existential threat" against our nation. Even the events of 9\/11, as horrific as they were, didn't do existential damage to our nation. Our society is more robust than it might seem from … Continue reading “Terrorists fail when you fail to be terrorized”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-homeland-security"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":128873,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/17\/it-takes-two-to-terrorize.html","url_meta":{"origin":33201,"position":0},"title":"It takes two to terrorize","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 17-Nov-15 2:45am","format":false,"excerpt":"Terrorism works because we allow it to work, because we allow an intentional, unanticipated act of violence to seize us with fear and drive us to emotional overreaction.'We are richer, and mightier, and far more deadly than any of our terrorist foes could dream of being. 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