{"id":248,"date":"2006-09-04T18:59:24","date_gmt":"2006-09-04T23:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/63.247.138.3\/~drweevil\/?p=248"},"modified":"2007-09-03T17:40:41","modified_gmt":"2007-09-03T21:40:41","slug":"top-of-the-world-ma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/?p=248","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Top of the World, Ma!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.publiuspundit.com\/?p=2897\">PubliusPundit<\/a> has the most interesting of several posts I&#8217;ve read about Adam Gadahn, the Orange County loser who finally managed to get his name in the papers by joining al Qaeda and making a videotape encouraging his fellow Americans to convert to Islam or die. Surely I&#8217;m not the only one who thinks that mockery is not enough, that we ought to be spreading rumors that he&#8217;s a deep-cover CIA agent, rumors specifically designed to get him killed by his new friends. A videotaped hanging (or worse) would be the best deterrent to future traitors.<\/p>\n<p>These rumors would have to be subtle, but not too subtle, to achieve their intended effect. Perhaps various bloggers and commenters could claim to be high-school classmates and drop hints, along these lines:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Let&#8217;s not rush to judgment. There&#8217;s more to this story than we can tell. Perhaps in ten years or so, the truth will come out.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;He always seemed a sly one, and loved to impersonate people he despised. I&#8217;ve seen him go in a CD store and convince the employees he was the new regional manager and they were all going to be fired if they didn&#8217;t do everything he told them to do. He kept it up for a whole week.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;He was always embarrassed to admit it, because it didn&#8217;t fit his heavy-metal image, but deep down inside he was really patriotic, and a devout Christian.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of course, these would have to be judiciously mingled with denunciations, and the ideal ratio would be difficult to estimate, even approximately.<\/p>\n<p>I can only think of one reason not to spread rumors that would get Adam Gadahn killed by his new friends: there&#8217;s a one-in-a-thousand chance that he really is a deep-cover CIA agent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PubliusPundit has the most interesting of several posts I&#8217;ve read about Adam Gadahn, the Orange County loser who finally managed to get his name in the papers by joining al Qaeda and making a videotape encouraging his fellow Americans to convert to Islam or die. Surely I&#8217;m not the only one who thinks that mockery [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}