Wednesday, June 08, 2005
Supermarkets, Hospitals and al-Qaida
The Guardian Unlimited is reporting that supermarkets and hospitals were on the list of structures for terrorism.
Does this surprise you? I don't think it surprises anybody who knows terrorism is a very real threat. I shudder to think what our response and defense would be with a president such as John Kerry. Or Al Gore. Or Howard Dean. Or MrsSatan.
In our wildest, most imaginative nightmare, I don't think most Americans would have, or could have believed that four airplanes were hi-jacked. And two of them flown into, and demolishing, two of the worlds most renowned architectural structures, and killing thousands.
And now, along with fears in the past of sporting events such as the Super Bowl, and other venues that attract large crowds, such as the Mall of America, are all places of potential acts of terror.
What's the answer? I don't know that there is one sole answer. It's a combination of responses and defenses. Depending on your definition of a terroristic profile, I don't see how the U.S. can't NOT strongly take a pro-terroristic profile, much like they do in Israel. If you look like a potential terrorist, you will be detained and questioned, period. If it turns out the authorities made a mistake, sorry about that, you're free to go on your way. And somehow the hardcore Left finds this a violation of civil liberties? Ask the survivors and their families of the Twin Towers about civil liberties. If half of the homicidal-suicidal-terrorists had been detained on September 11, 2001, things may only have been half as tragic as what happened.
You're robbed at gunpoint, and, lucky for you, all you lose is your wallet and your credit cards. When you're asked to give a physical description of the suspect, and you say "he was a white guy, about five feet tall, chubby, wore a baseball cap and had a brown beard," that description weeds out six foot tall slender suspects, black, Asian and Hispanic men, and women.
If you look like someone who fits a profile that has been determined by data and statistics based on what descriptions fit other known terrorists, sorry, that's not profiling in the sense the civil libertarians are getting their panties in a bundle.
Is it going to take another Twin Tower act , or the Pentagon or Pennsylvania to get some uber-Liberals to wake up to this? Unfortunately it seems that way.
©2005
Does this surprise you? I don't think it surprises anybody who knows terrorism is a very real threat. I shudder to think what our response and defense would be with a president such as John Kerry. Or Al Gore. Or Howard Dean. Or MrsSatan.
In our wildest, most imaginative nightmare, I don't think most Americans would have, or could have believed that four airplanes were hi-jacked. And two of them flown into, and demolishing, two of the worlds most renowned architectural structures, and killing thousands.
And now, along with fears in the past of sporting events such as the Super Bowl, and other venues that attract large crowds, such as the Mall of America, are all places of potential acts of terror.
What's the answer? I don't know that there is one sole answer. It's a combination of responses and defenses. Depending on your definition of a terroristic profile, I don't see how the U.S. can't NOT strongly take a pro-terroristic profile, much like they do in Israel. If you look like a potential terrorist, you will be detained and questioned, period. If it turns out the authorities made a mistake, sorry about that, you're free to go on your way. And somehow the hardcore Left finds this a violation of civil liberties? Ask the survivors and their families of the Twin Towers about civil liberties. If half of the homicidal-suicidal-terrorists had been detained on September 11, 2001, things may only have been half as tragic as what happened.
You're robbed at gunpoint, and, lucky for you, all you lose is your wallet and your credit cards. When you're asked to give a physical description of the suspect, and you say "he was a white guy, about five feet tall, chubby, wore a baseball cap and had a brown beard," that description weeds out six foot tall slender suspects, black, Asian and Hispanic men, and women.
If you look like someone who fits a profile that has been determined by data and statistics based on what descriptions fit other known terrorists, sorry, that's not profiling in the sense the civil libertarians are getting their panties in a bundle.
Is it going to take another Twin Tower act , or the Pentagon or Pennsylvania to get some uber-Liberals to wake up to this? Unfortunately it seems that way.
©2005
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