Posted on 06/13/2016 2:21:06 PM PDT by Kaslin
I believe they do indeed sir. Kinda sucks, doesn't it?
The title “Law enforcement never guessed that a gay club would be targeted” sums up our problems in a nut shell.
Law enforcement brings with a whole set of blind spots. They assume that the terrorist will, by and large, behave like the criminals they have encountered over the last 5, 10, 15, 20 years.
When September 11, 2001 happened I had the “privlage” to attend several briefings looking a base’s security program . After the second such meeting I could contain myself no longer and started laughing, almost uncontrollably. The the Colonel chairing the meeting asked what was so funny I had the ill grace to answer him and everyone sitting around his conference table.
I told him with less than 20 terrorists I could shut down EVERY stateside military base for at least a week. 20 terrorists and EVERY base would be out of play for a week or more and there was nothing he or any other commander could do to stop it.
Then I told him my only target - the base childcare center. Think it through; it is the perfect terrorist target. I told everyone that the moment it got out that their childcare center had been seized by terrorist there would be a run on every other childcare center in the CONUS. What would they have to do to prevent a parent, mother or father, from getting their child(ren) to safety? Then how long would it take to convince the parents that the chilcare center was well and safely guarded.
Thire collective looks of disbelief, shock, anf then out right terror was not nice to see.
It was only the first burtal lesion on the differences between how law enforcement thinks and how a terrorist thinks. Orlando was, unfortunately, is only the most recent example. And, there will be more until we get rid of the 22-year tradition of thinking that terrorism is ‘just” another law enforcement problem. That was the policy developed and enforced by President Bill Clinton in the early to mid 1990s and followed blindly by every President since.
Enough said!
It’s getting to the point where you can’t even mention the “I” and “M” words anymore in gubmit or within it’s “security” agencies.
The Nazi’s wished they had so much PC shame for truth during the 1930s and 1940s.
I've been looking quite a while for a the most precise description of how the leftists think about such things. I think you nailed it. They make a deal with the devil, so long as the devil comes for them last.
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You are being far too generous and optimistic re LEO reaction time.
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From The Patch -- the Pulse timeline:
"Minutes"? How about THREE HOURS?
Even Chief Wiggins would have been in there by 3:30.
Count on it. Probably sooner rather than later.
How many churches in our country will be comfortable with numerous parishioners packing heat in the pews?
How will it NOT come to this?
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