https://www.enemiesforeignanddomestic.com/excerpts/beginning.html
Link to Mark Steyn's "Theory of the Case"
https://www.steynonline.com/8162/theory-of-the-case
BTTT
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.
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.
"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
They have been preparing for this. Empty seats are the best defense.
Excellent analysis. Big fan!
The Vegas incident prompted me to pull out your first book again and reread for the third time! Our false sense of security is going to get ever increasing numbers of our citizens killed and maimed. As I age big crowd venues are becoming less and less desirable.
Given the way the NFL is hemorrhaging fans, they won’t have to be concerned at all in a few weeks.
How about BLACK SUNDAY by Thomas Harris. Using a blimp to blow up a stadium.
A “thinker” can hit hard and never be located ...... a non-thinker will be left dead as “evidence” by they’re handler. That being said I’m wondering what these little antifa wannabe anarchists have planned for “””November 4th””” Saturday after next. Figure it will go over like a draw Mohammad cartoon contest in Texas.
Also major DDoS attacks on the horizon again ...... only draconian punishment will stop this crap.
Hope yer well Bub.... Stay Safe !
Frankly I have wondered for years why there hasn’t been a large scale attack on a Sporting Event. The movie “Black Sunday” was a great picture and imaginative. I think the average terrorist has a limited imagination and they go for the immediate shack value of the suicide bombings.
The 9-11 attack was a large scale terrorist action. Someone who knows might check on this but I would say that was the largest single attack of it’s type.
This guy’s first novel sounds like the plot from the movie “Two Minute Warning” made back in the 1970’s.
Who watches the watchers?
Matt, thanks for posting this. You may have just saved hundreds or thousands of lives, and the consequences (for the 2nd Amendment) that would result. Why? Because if the scenario is out there in the public, it likely won’t be attempted (and this is especially the case if some of the security measures that you proposed are actually implemented), because then it would be too obvious.
It is amazing how vulnerable our open society is to truly catastrophic attacks that would be simple to carry out. Bridge and tunnel attacks with truck bombs, for example, would kill thousands and interrupt transportation for hundreds of thousands (3 such bombs on the western side of NYC would largely paralyze our financial capitol - the Holland and Lincoln tunnels and the George Washington Bridge). Fuel depots and refinery complexes could similarly be easily attacked. Sports stadiums and concert locations aren’t the only vulnerable areas.
Such is the price of having an open society - and I’ll take it because a lot more than mere vulnerability goes with that (and we risk a lot of positive things if we ever attempt to eliminate that vulnerability).
Again, thanks. I’ll be avoiding big crowds.
Didn’t scroll thru everything but he was kicked off facefook again: