{"id":267,"date":"2007-06-04T18:06:50","date_gmt":"2007-06-05T00:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=267"},"modified":"2007-06-04T18:10:28","modified_gmt":"2007-06-05T00:10:28","slug":"now-we-see-that-good-will-always-triumph-because-evil-is-dumb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=267","title":{"rendered":"Now We See That Good Will Always Triumph, Because Evil is Dumb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously, folks, every day the terrorists remind me more and more of the <a href=\"http:\/\/right-thinking.com\/index.php\/weblog\/terror_not_so_much\/\">keystone cops<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Homeland Security sources said there is no current threat at the airport and the attack as planned was \u00e2\u20ac\u0153not technically feasible.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But if incidents like this are going to be used to bolster Bush\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s image as a steely-eyed terrorist killer with his six-guns slung low on his hips, I think it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s only fair to point out that the terrorist he just gunned down in the town square was half retarded and trying to stab a woman with a banana.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Like Lee, I&#8217;m more attacking the &#8220;this proves Bush is amazing&#8221; people than the hard-working people who cracked this cell.  They seem to be doing a good job here.  And I&#8217;d rather have them crack a plot that won&#8217;t work than not crack one that will.<\/p>\n<p>But again, notice how the plot was busted.  No one was tortured.  No civil rights were violated.  These guys will be given criminal trials.  Obeying the law, respecting the Constitution and treating our enemies better than they treat us <em>can<\/em> work, no matter what Rudy says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously, folks, every day the terrorists remind me more and more of the keystone cops: Homeland Security sources said there is no current threat at the airport and the attack as planned was \u00e2\u20ac\u0153not technically feasible. &#8230; But if incidents like this are going to be used to bolster Bush\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s image as a steely-eyed terrorist &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=267\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Now We See That Good Will Always Triumph, Because Evil is Dumb<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-terror"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-4j","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}