Posted on 06/30/2007 9:02:16 AM PDT by U S Army EOD
Heavy NYPD presence all over NYC.
You could be right, but a big reason they save their big powder for the USofA is they want to create an economic ripple effect. THAT is how they hope to bring us down. Therefore, New York and Washington continue to be prime targets. I worry about an attack in Houston because of the refineries. Chicago has the Board of Trade and San Francisco has the stock market.
BTTT
Au Contraire!! It's been so dry the past few years that there have been "Burn Bans" in effect.
This year with no bans, My friends and and invitees will slog thru mud if neccessary.
Thankful for the opportunity.
I'm concerned about some of the huge "Pops" concerts on the 4th. About 300,000 flag-waving, patriotic Americans pack the Esplanade on the Charles River in Boston every year for the annual Boston Pops concert. There's also a big one in DC and other cities.
Thank you for the warning and taking the time to post it.
I think everyone would do well to heed it.
mark
‘You could be right, but a big reason they save their big powder for the USofA is they want to create an economic ripple effect. THAT is how they hope to bring us down. Therefore, New York and Washington continue to be prime targets. I worry about an attack in Houston because of the refineries. Chicago has the Board of Trade and San Francisco has the stock market.’
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The “hot backup” sites for market activities would dampen the economic risk of attacks on market centers. Refining capacity, or LNG/petro port facilities would be a juicy target, but likely have better security than attack planners would be comfortable with. Without a lot of negative past experience to educate the adversaries’ planners, another “Oklahoma City” would seem to be much lower risk and, with a bit of thought and care, could take out far more people (e.g., a small team of well armed perps striking at some densely populated VT-like “gun free zone” where they can kill a lot of people before troopers can respond).
Best to not worry about it, but be as ready as the Flight 93 passengers, with hopefully better equipment, to put down any attack teams that show up in your own neighborhood, and depend on neighbors elsewhere to do their part if the attack comes to their community instead. Make every community of any substantial size into a roach hotel for jihadis. Of course, we would have to agree to abandon the “gun-free” / free-fire-zone-for-attackers lunacy ...
A sequence of thwarted attacks (even if thwarted with some casualties), in which a combination of quick reacting self-armed local residents who just happened to be handy, and on-duty local security and law enforcement workers promptly “took care of business” with minimal casualties would be the best way to increase the perceived risk to planners of future attacks. As some wartime general said: “The point is not to die for your country but to see to it that the schmucks on the other side have to die for their country,” (or words to that effect). That would need to be updated to handle our current case, where those who come to kill and steal and destroy are motivated by malevolent religious incentives rather than patriotism, but the principal remains the same. Such individuals have their own peculiar vulnerabilities to horror and repulsion: “You came to die for the greater glory of Allah? That can be arranged, and when we get done, there are some hog farmers down the road who will appreciate the cheap protein for their stock.”
Of course, such bravado would be fairly worthless if the attack is a surreptitiously planted nuke detonated from a distance, or similar WMD. But, no defense can be perfect, it can only make an attack plan more uncertain than the planner chooses to risk. So, it’s worth having if only for that. How many years did it take to plan the 9/11 attack? Several, wasn’t it? And that was after the vulnerability of the WTC was so emphatically demonstrated in 1993.
If the recent lame efforts in Britain are any indication, flawed and containable attacks are far more likely than some apocalyptic horror. There is not an unlimited supply of jihadi Chuck Norris types on tap. Those most motivated by ideology to be “warriors” are least likely to fit that description, and most likely to resemble the losers who blow themselves up in Israel whenever they get the chance: eminently defeatable by a random group of alert citizens, as the Flight 93 passengers demonstrated.
Prior to clicking on your post,I had just given the kids a lecture about tonight.Holiday weekend and full moon,and what you said.Thanks for the alert.Sadly,many are oblivious to the challenges we face.I sincerely hope everyone here has a great and safe holiday.
“I think the bombings were meant to test the new Prime Minister’s resolve”
Well, maybe so, but it wasn’t much of a test, was it? There’s a great fireworks display near here in Rancho Cordova, but I don’t think I want to be in a large crowd. The 70’s group “America” is playing too.
10-4
Now more than ever.
This is one of those times when I worry if 35 rounds is enough ....
We allow this scum into our country (no immigration control) and then we wonder how and why terrorist attacks can occur....sheesh...
The line I meant to quote and enthusiastically affirm was that Americans should always be a code yellow.
Absogoldarnlutely.
“I’m concerned about some of the huge “Pops” concerts on the 4th. About 300,000 flag-waving, patriotic Americans pack the Esplanade on the Charles River in Boston every year for the annual Boston Pops concert. There’s also a big one in DC and other cities.”
Could be. Accept the wisdom of Psalm 90:12, enjoy your local concert or crowd event, and contemplate the response of the Flight 93 passengers if your number comes up, and you have the opportunity to follow suit.
Or stay home and watch it on the tube. I’ve never enjoyed being in crowds myself, apart from any risk of being assaulted. For those who find crowds fun, though, don’t let the threats of jihadi schmucks spoil it.
That would have been my hero, Gen'l George S. Patton, and I believe what he said was "No bastard... ever won a war... by dying for his country. He won it... by making the other poor... dumb... bastard... die for HIS country!"
Patton used bad language because he knew it got his soldiers attention better than milquetoast talk. And I don't hear anybody in Britain saying that Britain will not be intimidated by thugs.
But Keith Olbermann and Rosie O’Donell says there is no terrorist threats? These are amateurs and laughable in comparison to Iraq.
Texas is safe. Very few explosives outside of mines are successful under water!
Keep on quotin’ ol’ George... the right way !!
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