Posted on 10/27/2017 4:17:11 AM PDT by Travis McGee
It doesn’t matter if you have 100 police counter-snipers up on top of the stadium. It’s apples to oranges when the terrorist sniper can be hidden back in a building firing through a small opening at a target that is 100 yards wide. The police will have to go out and hunt for the sniper, and that means FLIR equipped helicopters vectored by acoustic systems.
Exactly.
Up until age 62 Paddock had bought only two or three guns.
but after Trump is elected Paddock is Galvanized into a frenzy of gun-buying activity.
I find that interesting.
I think the notion that has to be either entirely antfa OR Islam is wrong; it could be both of those to put together.
many progressive activists have a strange attraction to Islam, which they romanticize as the de facto Teligion of Resistance.
They obviously haven’t seen the empty stadiums.
It’s not far fetched at all, Matt.
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Exactly, And no one seems to hold accountable the league of rogue federal agencies. We’re just an upscale posh looking banana republic constantly being sold out to the highest bidder.
***WHAT did the USA get in exchange for forfeiting 20% of our uranium reserves? ***
Fine, the Clinton Crime Family got 2 million bucks for paving the way, but what about the US Treasury? Suppose the Clintons got zilcho. Why would we sell off our uranium to any nation, whether it be Russia, Cuba, or Zimbabwe. Where’s the beef?
There’s no transparency; plenty of darkness. Vegas may very be another false narrative to sell the anti-RKBA agenda. We’ll likely never discover the truth and have been conditioned to accept a whole lot of BS.
We need to pray for DJT’s safety and that we get 7 more years with POTUS cleaning up our government.
Lord-willing, Trump will be followed by another 4-8 years with another righteous leader at the helm.
Drones mocking the NFL kneelers and BLM fist pumpers would be an amusing spectacle that would ignite the crowds.
They need to be shamed into oblivion.
I suspect stadiums have drone jammers. No insight on that, but it would seem to be prudent to have them. However, the incompetence we’ve seen these days says probably not.
A Mad Mo follower could easily take a large sized civilian drone, add a simple device or two and scare enough people into panic to kill hundreds. The device could also be armed with a lethal gas spray or bomb combined with dropped explosives. Make it a dozen drones and a 75,000 seat stadium could easily have thousands dead.
Do that at an airport terminal or two and shut down air traffic for weeks. Massive economic hit.
Do that on a freeway, and panic would have it shutdown for days. Do that around the country and vehicle travel would be significantly curtailed.
Fact is, if we let the bastards in they will find a means to their savage ways.
May 24, 1964, 318 died and 500 injured during match between Argentina and Peru when referee disallowed a goal scored at last minute which ignited crowd protest. Police fired tear gas into the crowd, causing a panic and a rush for the exits at National Stadium, Lima, Peru
October 20, 1982, Luzhniki disaster occurred when 340 people dead due to a stampede followed by the collision between exiting and returning viewers when a goal was scored at Lenin Stadium, Moscow, Russia.
May 29, 1985, Heysel Stadium disaster 39 people were killed and 600 injured when escaping fans were pressed against a collapsing wall in the Heysel Stadium in Brussels, Belgium.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_soccer_stampede_disasters
I can imagine several scenarios involving quadcopter swarms and balloons that no amount of snipers could fully thwart to prevent a stampede.
Every stadium and arena is a potential kill sack. Indeed, any place of public assembly that draws huge crowds, such as the Bataclan club, the promenade truck and shooting even.
Initiator has the advantage, especially an ideologue prepared to die, either on his own initiative or one set up as a patsy.
Another good reason not to watch Ghettoball.
I’m sure you’re far from the only one. I know I did, too.
Today, most of the National Felon League games would not be played in a packed stadium.
ESPN is planning another round of layoffs just six months after the network fired more than 100 employees, Sporting News reports.
Multiple sources told the sports news site that 40 to 60 people including on-air talent and radio personalities may be sent packing.
The layoffs could come as soon as late November or early December.
ESPN declined Fox News’ request for comment.
Excerpted, for full story go to the link below:
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2017/10/27/espn-preparing-for-more-layoffs-report-says.html
The public answer is, for the most part yes.
The real answer, if you speak to anyone involved in Emergency Planning, is that you are never ready for it. You can drill with scenarios and dummies...and it will never make anyone ready for it.
Training for these things is horribly expensive.
Working in a hospital within a one hour radius of the Boston Marathon Bombing, I can assure you the system worked—we were able to get up to speed pretty quickly. But the lack of knowledge by the Senior Management Team was palatable. They had never found it useful to participate in the drills.
In the end, they DID know enough to get out of the way. And, we just walking wounded who were not as traumatized as those closest to the bombs.
But it was a wakeup call to say the least.
We are never going to be “ready” to the satisfaction of the public or the media.
I’m going to disagree with the premise of this topic... but only slightly.
Many NFL stadiums are in the middle of giant parking lots with few significant buildings in their immediate area. Even those not so are typically domed (Toronto, New Orleans come to mind immediately). That’s not universal (Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte is within a roughly 1000 feet of a high-rise building), but it at least reduces the options.
Baseball stadiums, however... a lot of those are built in downtown areas amidst high-rises - with many more home dates to choose from.
>>>Dozens if not 100s of ATF and FBI agents knew all about the mass murder plan called Operation Fast and Furious, and there were no whistleblowers<<<
That’s a great point. So many here and in our Republic are dismissive of criticism of our federal agencies and believe they are beyond reproach. They have been conditioned to revere authority and gullibly swallow the msm official politburo explanation - regardless of the irrationality. They want to believe no one can keep a secret and that collusion and corruption is unfathomable.
Occam’s Razor has proven to be non-applicable for politicians, terrorists or governments since they typically don’t concoct their plans on a whim. The tentacles and webs of manipulation and deceit are quite long, not short. The past administration, the Clintons and the msm routinely demonstrate their corruption.
Like you said, I wouldn’t put anything past them.
"Official Narrative".
I have come to understand that the wildest, kookiest, most bizzarre conspiracy theories (i.e., Sandy Hook was a government plot) are no more crazy than beleiving the "official narrative" the State feeds us. Especially as that narrative conflicts with the story they told us the day before, and as it will conflict with the "facts" that will be released tomorrow.
Will anyone really be surprised that with the release of new JFK info this week, we will learn that many official narratives from the last 50 years were just lies?
“In Las Vegas, then, the message would be that the ready availability of semi-automatic firearms constitutes a menace to American society, and the Second Amendment must be curtailed to prevent future massacres.”
This is why I’m inclined to dismiss the LV attack as a “false flag”: there has been no serious attempt to shove thru anti-RKBA legislation. Media coverage of the event waned within days, some half-assed bills were proposed, and AFAIK the whole issue is pretty much dead except for the detailed investigation (which itself is trying to make sense of the mundane nonsense of everyday life; the “shifting timeline” seems more a matter of “people are stupid” than conspiracy).
HAD it been a “false flag event”, the MSM would not have let the story go, legislators would have focused on banning semi-autos (not “bump stocks”) with ready-to-go bills, and Congressional leaders would have made an enormous stink about “pass this at all costs”.
There’s a small chance it was ISIS related, but insofar as he left no statement to that effect (no screaming “Aloe Snackbar”, no calls to 911 explaining exactly what & why a la Pulse Nightclub, no other not-easily-suppressed statements) I’m not inclined to accept that theory.
All I can figure is he was the Dr Jekyll “black swan”, presenting a “livin’ the dream” public life and cleverly concealing a Mr Hyde indulgence of evil (requiring a long & confusing investigation as we’re seeing), until the latter became either so unsatisfying or intolerable that he decided to go out in a blaze of glory.
All that said, does remain the point: high-profile mass targets do exist, and we have concrete reason to believe influential people might very well invoke a “black flag” event for whatever reason - in current context, likely to get our current President out of power and rapidly disarm those who would kinetically object thereto. The NFL does seem an obvious target, though fortunately they’re doing their part to render themselves undesirable as such.
As we all know, the US did survive a stadium attack. Or at least the ATTEPMT to commit mass murder. Not by a crazed gunman, but by a suicide bomber.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_University_of_Oklahoma_bombing
“We are never going to be “ready” to the satisfaction of the public or the media.”
And the MSM will spin that blame into “Trump’s fault”, as they’re trying to with Puerto Rico (uh, he can’t just write a check and have a complete new infrastructure installed in a week...).
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