{"id":24906,"date":"2018-09-07T19:02:25","date_gmt":"2018-09-08T00:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.wordpress.com\/?p=24906"},"modified":"2018-09-07T19:02:25","modified_gmt":"2018-09-08T00:02:25","slug":"farnam-quips-amsterdam-stabbing-you-have-your-own-opinion-but-not-your-own-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/07\/farnam-quips-amsterdam-stabbing-you-have-your-own-opinion-but-not-your-own-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Farnam Quips: Amsterdam Stabbing, You Have Your Own Opinion, But Not Your Own Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24907\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/09\/fq.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"377\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>That\u2019s a fact, Jack!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cJohn\u201d (played by Bill Murray), in the 1981 feature film \u201cStripes\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Last Friday, two American tourists were singled-out,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/man-suspected-terrorist-motive-stabbing-american-tourists-amsterdam\/story?id=57572294\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">attacked<\/a>, and stabbed by a 19-year-old Afghan Jihadi within a busy train station in Amsterdam. Central Station is, in fact, the entry and exit point for most visitors to Amsterdam.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect, knife still in hand, was subsequently confronted by, and immediately shot by, Dutch police. The suspect and the two victims of his unprovoked attack are all expected to recover.<\/p>\n<p>Based on statements by the perpetrator after his arrest, Dutch authorities said on Saturday that the suspect had\u00a0<em>\u201ca terrorist motive.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On Sunday, they curiously revised their assessment (under pressure from the tourist industry), saying,\u00a0<em>\u201cThe victims were not chosen deliberately, nor with a clear reason\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Unclear motives? Oh, please! Don\u2019t insult my intelligence!<\/h3>\n<p>Islamic terrorists, invited in by leftist politicians, are now out-of-control in Holland, and in most of Western Europe and the UK. They will continue to physically harm Western interests and citizens at every opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>They have their holy orders.<\/p>\n<p>Friday\u2019s focused attack on Americans is thus typical of what we\u2019re going to see for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n<p>Cowardly politicians and bureaucrats, here and there, will continue to stick their collective heads in the sand and insist that there is no problem and that all this bloodshed is just in our imaginations!<\/p>\n<p>The sage neither believes, nor trust, anything they say, nor should we!<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>We don\u2019t believe the leftist propaganda, nor depend on \u201cluck,\u201d to keep us healthy!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>We depend upon our own well-practiced skills and good judgment.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThe familiar clause, \u2018It&#8217;s better to be lucky than good\u2019 is the most ridiculous homily ever uttered! In any competitive endeavor, you have to be damned good, before \u2018luck\u2019 can be of any use to you at all.\u201d ~ Garry Kasparov<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the Original Article at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/defense-training.com\/2018\/you-get-to-have-your-own-opinion-but-not-your-own-facts\/\">Defense Training International<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Stay Alert, Stay Armed and Stay Dangerous!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; That\u2019s a fact, Jack!\u201d \u201cJohn\u201d (played by Bill Murray), in the 1981 feature film \u201cStripes\u201d Last Friday, two American tourists were singled-out,\u00a0attacked, and stabbed by a 19-year-old Afghan Jihadi within a busy train station in Amsterdam. Central Station is, in fact, the entry and exit point for most visitors to Amsterdam. The suspect, knife&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5445,1704,5072,13,74,4802,1189,5543,402,2863,5705,272],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24906"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}