{"id":3091,"date":"2008-10-28T09:58:22","date_gmt":"2008-10-28T09:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/10\/28\/the-missing-word\/"},"modified":"2008-10-28T09:58:22","modified_gmt":"2008-10-28T09:58:22","slug":"the-missing-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/10\/28\/the-missing-word\/","title":{"rendered":"The Missing Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There have been a whole bunch of stories written about the idiot skinheads who were busted for a ludicrous plot to kill a whole bunch of black people, including Barack Obama: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20081027\/ap_on_el_pr\/skinhead_plot\">the AP version<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/10\/27\/AR2008102701823.html\"><cite>Washington Post<\/cite><\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/10\/28\/us\/politics\/28plot.html?_r=2&#038;partner=rssnyt&#038;emc=rss&#038;oref=slogin&#038;oref=slogin\"><cite>New York Times<\/cite><\/a>. They&#8217;re all pretty similar, and they&#8217;re all notable for one thing: the word they don&#8217;t contain.<\/p>\n<p>Terrorist.<\/p>\n<p>By any reasonable definition of the word, these guys were wannabe terrorists. Their plan called for shooting 88 people and beheading another 14 (because idiot skinheads are big on Kabbalistic numerology, apparently)&#8211; that&#8217;s a terror plot. Not a terribly realistic one, mind, but then neither were most of the idiotic plots &#8220;broken up&#8221; by the noble officers of the Department of Homeland Security.<\/p>\n<p>So why aren&#8217;t these guys being called terrorists? Law enforcement officials and the news media don&#8217;t hesitate to throw the T-word around when a couple of yokels with more mouth than brains pop off in a mosque. Why don&#8217;t skinheads get the same treatment?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have been a whole bunch of stories written about the idiot skinheads who were busted for a ludicrous plot to kill a whole bunch of black people, including Barack Obama: the AP version, the Washington Post, the New York Times. They&#8217;re all pretty similar, and they&#8217;re all notable for one thing: the word they&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/10\/28\/the-missing-word\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Missing Word<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}