{"id":59230,"date":"2016-06-17T07:57:55","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T12:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59230"},"modified":"2016-06-17T08:14:13","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T13:14:13","slug":"the-army-of-davids-or-abus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59230","title":{"rendered":"The Army Of Davids.  Or Abus."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Everybody knows David slew Goliath, and that it was an amazing feat because David was a kid and Goliath a giant.\u00a0 He won using a sling \u2013 a child\u2019s weapon.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Glenn Reynolds, the Instapundit, says America needs an army of Davids, ordinary people with ordinary skills to take on extraordinary tasks using their own particular skills.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Suppose a fundamentalist Christian preacher in America were to embrace the concept?\u00a0 Suppose he preached to his congregation: \u201cGod has turned His back on America because we have embraced Satan.\u00a0 The only thing we can do is start over, just like Sodom and Gomorrah.\u00a0 But we don\u2019t have to wait for God to act, the Lord helps those who help themselves.\u00a0 Every one of you can play a role in bringing God\u2019s justice to this land, just like David slew Goliath, you can be an Army of Davids.\u00a0 Do you work for the power company?\u00a0 Search for a way to disrupt the grid.\u00a0 Do you work in for the water department?\u00a0 Search for a way to poison everyone in the city after you massacre the staff at the Christmas party.\u00a0 Do you have knowledge of firearms?\u00a0 Kill all the gays in a nightclub. You don\u2019t need to travel overseas to kill sinners, they\u2019re all around you.\u00a0 You don\u2019t need specialized training, you don\u2019t need financial backing, you don\u2019t need have your plans approved or coordinate your action with anyone else; just do it. The Lord will approve.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Suppose impressionable young men and women took him up on it and began to commit random acts of terrorism.\u00a0 Do you think the Obama administration would find a way to restrict his preaching, limit membership in his church, seize his pamphlets, block his radio transmissions, deny him internet access?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/homeland-security\/2016\/06\/12\/orlando-night-club-attack-by-known-wolf-terrorist-previously-investigated-by-fbi\/\">What if the preacher were a Muslim<\/a><\/span><span class=\"s3\">?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Joe Doakes<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">It&#8217;s simple: \u00a0If he&#8217;s Christian (and not explicitly &#8220;progressive&#8221;), he&#8217;s the &#8220;tip of the iceberg&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">If he&#8217;s Muslim, he&#8217;s a perverse aberration that reflects nothing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Everybody knows David slew Goliath, and that it was an amazing feat because David was a kid and Goliath a giant.\u00a0 He won using a sling \u2013 a child\u2019s weapon.\u00a0 \u00a0Glenn Reynolds, the Instapundit, says America needs an army of Davids, ordinary people with ordinary skills to take on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc","category-western-civilization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59230"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59234,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59230\/revisions\/59234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}