{"id":58118,"date":"2016-03-25T11:00:43","date_gmt":"2016-03-25T16:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58118"},"modified":"2016-03-24T23:15:38","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T04:15:38","slug":"the-terrorists-are-pretty-much-winning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58118","title":{"rendered":"The Terrorists Are Pretty Much Winning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-belgium-blast-usa-intelligence-idUSKCN0WQ0BU\">This observation<\/a> is a whack upside the head (emphasis added):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Some U.S. counter-terrorism officials say much of the gap between Washington and Belgium &#8212; and some other European countries &#8212; is cultural. <strong>Europeans&#8217; deeper commitment to personal privacy<\/strong> sometimes prevents or delays sharing of information such as travel data &#8212; that is taken for granted in the United States.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The idea that Europe &#8211; the contintent of sheep-like government-addled socialized drones who gave us Naziism, Socialism, Communism and Soccer &#8211; have more commitment to personal privacy than the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave is a jab in the gut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This observation is a whack upside the head (emphasis added): Some U.S. counter-terrorism officials say much of the gap between Washington and Belgium &#8212; and some other European countries &#8212; is cultural. Europeans&#8217; deeper commitment to personal privacy sometimes prevents or delays sharing of information such as travel data &#8212; that is taken for granted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,286,51,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-police-powers","category-liberal-tyranny","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58118","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=58118"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58121,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58118\/revisions\/58121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}