{"id":46,"date":"2003-10-21T18:23:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-21T23:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=46"},"modified":"2010-07-18T22:06:40","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T03:06:40","slug":"attack-of-the-malaysian-moonbats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=46","title":{"rendered":"Attack of the Malaysian Moonbats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, a bunch of prominent warbloggers were hit by a<br \/>\ndenial-of-service attack apparently orchestrated by a bunch of<br \/>\ncomically incompetent al-Qaeda affiliates in Malaysia &mdash; and<br \/>\n<em>I wasn&#8217;t a target<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d ask what I&#8217;ve been doing wrong with my life that I missed out<br \/>\non the honor of being personally targeted by Osama&#8217;s fuckwit brigade.<br \/>\nBut alas, I know full well wherein I failed. This is what I get for<br \/>\ngoing on hiatus for months to finish my book and put multiple spokes<br \/>\nin the wheels of SCO.  I didn&#8217;t maintain the momentum I had in<br \/>\n2002\/early-2003, and fell off the moonbats&#8217; radar.<\/p>\n<p>To all of you who were targeted &#8212; Internet Hagannah, InstaPundit,<br \/>\nSteve denBeste, Charles Johnson, and others: you have my respect and<br \/>\nmy thanks for what you do every day.  The war against terror is a war<br \/>\nof ideas as well as bullets.  You do great service by unflinchingly<br \/>\nexposing the lies of the terror network and its apologists in the<br \/>\nWest. The Malaysian Moonbats, in recognizing this, have paid you<br \/>\ngreater tribute than I can.<\/p>\n<p>Hmmm.  Maybe I ought to update the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catb.org\/~esr\/aim\/\">Anti-Idiotarian Manifesto<\/a>.<br \/>\nThink that&#8217;d piss &#8217;em off enough that they&#8217;s try to DDOS me?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/enetation.co.uk\/comments.php?user=esr&amp;commentid=106678580001235760\">Blogspot comments<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, a bunch of prominent warbloggers were hit by a denial-of-service attack apparently orchestrated by a bunch of comically incompetent al-Qaeda affiliates in Malaysia &mdash; and I wasn&#8217;t a target. I&#8217;d ask what I&#8217;ve been doing wrong with my life that I missed out on the honor of being personally targeted by Osama&#8217;s fuckwit brigade.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=46\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Attack of the Malaysian Moonbats<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-terror","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2295,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/2295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}