I’m glad to see this getting aired in the WSJ. More people need to understand the concept of Letters of Marque that is embedded in the Constitution. It completely backs up the idea that the citizenry has a right to own serious armaments.
Full TXT:
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“Argh, matey. It’s Ann from Visa-Mastercard Account Services on the ‘orizon.”
A fun comment from the site.
Ping.
I have had an entirely different view for several years.
It began with the linking together of power companies and called the grid.
We are making a huge mistake in allowing dependence on a very limited number of sources for essential items.
I recognize the advantages of Colonial Pipeline. Cost, safety and volume makes it the preferred method.
However, our grandparents used to warn us regularly not to put all of our eggs in one basket.
This nation should form a policy setting limits on volume for any single method of transportation of liquid energy...so much for pipelines so much for rail and so much for trucks. 50/25/25 as an example.
Maybe two or more separate pipelines with the requirement that they cn not have any commonality in operation, although they could be owned by the same company.
We are doomed to have more and possibly much worse incidents of this kind if we continue to operate super big systems.
Think about what we would suffer if the hackers decided not to talk to us until 2022. Or some foreign nation said never.