{"id":41239,"date":"2018-10-27T13:49:54","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T17:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=41239"},"modified":"2018-10-28T19:39:36","modified_gmt":"2018-10-28T23:39:36","slug":"what-is-stochastic-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/what-is-stochastic-terrorism\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is &#8220;Stochastic Terrorism&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In July, Melissa McEwan wrote a blog post titled, &#8220;The Trump Regime and Stochastic Terrorism.&#8221; She defined stochastic terrorism as:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8230; the use of mass communications to incite random actors to carry out violent or terrorist acts that are <em>statistically predictable but individually unpredictable. <\/em>In short, remote-control murder by lone wolf.<em>&#8220;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Her post predicted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/politics\/la-na-pol-trump-bombs-leadership-20181026-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this week&#8217;s acts of domestic terrorism<\/a>, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/oct\/27\/cesar-sayoc-pipe-bomb-suspect-court-date-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Over a dozen pipe bombs sent by a Trump supporter to Democratic leaders and donors, as well as law enforcement<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/kroger-shooting-louisville-gunman-white-black-supermarket-church-murder-victims-a8602276.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A white gunman who killed two black people at a Kentucky supermarket after he failed to invade a black church<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2018\/10\/27\/pittsburgh-police-responding-active-shooting-squirrel-hill-area\/?utm_term=.16e44be0800b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Today&#8217;s mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shakesville.com\/2018\/07\/the-trump-regime-and-stochastic.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to read her full post<\/a>, which includes the decades-long history of stochastic terrorism fomented by the anti-abortion movement.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATED TO ADD: Thanks to Jane Boon for alerting me to <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1436267\/trump-stochastic-terror-and-the-hate-that-ends-in-violence\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">another piece on stochastic terrorism<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In July, Melissa McEwan wrote a blog post titled, &#8220;The Trump Regime and Stochastic Terrorism.&#8221; She defined stochastic terrorism as: &#8220;&#8230; the use of mass communications to incite random actors to carry out violent or terrorist acts that are statistically predictable but individually unpredictable. 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