{"id":39202,"date":"2013-10-23T07:00:50","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T12:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=39202"},"modified":"2013-10-22T10:07:45","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T15:07:45","slug":"a-pack-not-a-herd-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=39202","title":{"rendered":"A Pack, Not A Herd"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ted Nugent, famous gonzo guitarist and gun nut, says that armed, law-abiding citizens are likely the only coherent way that open societies have to protect against “soft target” terror attacks <\/a>like the massacre Westgate Mall in Nairobi:<\/p>\n

“Societies have to think about how they’re going to approach the problem,” Noble said. “One is to say we want an armed citizenry; you can see the reason for that. Another is to say the enclaves are so secure that in order to get into the soft target you’re going to have to pass through extraordinary security.”<\/p>\n

Noble’s comments came only moments after the official opening of the 82nd annual gathering of the Interpol’s governing body, the General Assembly. The session is being held in Cartagena, Colombia, and is being used to highlight strides over the last decade in Colombia’s battle against the notorious drug cartels that used to be the real power in the country.<\/p>\n

The secretary general, an American who previously headed up all law enforcement for the U.S. Treasury Department, told reporters during a brief news conference that the Westgate mall attack marks what has long been seen as “an evolution in terrorism.” Instead of targets like the Pentagon and World Trade Center that now have far more security since 9\/11, attackers are focusing on sites with little security that attract large numbers of people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Wait – “Noble?”\u00a0 I thought it was Ted Nugent…<\/p>\n

…oh, I can’t keep a straight face.\u00a0 It’s not Ted Nugent.\u00a0 It’s Ronald Noble, who is in charge of Interpol.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And if Interpol – an agent of international statism – is finally twigging to the idea that the citizens are their own best last line of defense (short of absurd levels of “security”, which we all know means “Security Theater”, and for the most part immense sacrifice of freedom.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Your choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ted Nugent, famous gonzo guitarist and gun nut, says that armed, law-abiding citizens are likely the only coherent way that open societies have to protect against “soft target” terror attacks like the massacre Westgate Mall in Nairobi: “Societies have to think about how they’re going to approach the problem,” Noble said. “One is to say […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22,9,73,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-victim-disarmament","category-war-on-terror","category-western-civilization","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39202"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39205,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39202\/revisions\/39205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}