Posted on 02/21/2003 8:36:12 PM PST by Jeff Head
They know very well how panic can be manufactured to leverage mass death from ordinary circumstances.
Take up your doubts with the folks over at whatever web-site it originated from. They apparently know the guy.
My point is, and remains the analogy.
Horrific agreement here. In these times, the price for inaction, ignorance and an unwillingness to be vigilant may be very,very terribly high.
The generation coming on has been raised to be non-observing; "experts," they are told, are there for them, wherever they may desire to trip along.
And trip, they do.
At the company where I work, I bought the fire extinguiser months ago. I bought the flashlights in case the power goes out. I bought the analog telephone so that when the digital units are dead, somebody can still call out. All, at my own expense.
Last July, at a gasoline fuel depot nearby, I stopped to investigate when the siren was blowing --- nobody was there; gates wide open; no guards; no track of how many thousands of gallons the terrorists had driven away with; no mention of it in the news; and nobody there or downtown or in the F.B.I. would care to know this, because the event caught them all completely ignorant of what is going on out there.
I watch the airport fence perimeter, and sure enough, there is no patrol at all. Somalis drive the taxi cabs right up to the doors of the terminal, no security checks at all, while passengers must park many hundred yards away.
Delta Airlines B-757's sit only a hundred feet from fences which are not watched; the jets' hatches are open; anybody could plant a bomb therein; but nobody is watching ... except the Somali taxi cab drivers.
I carry a many first aid supplies in the car; fire gloves; fire extinguisher, etc., because unlike Nancy Pelosi who thinks that President Bush has not offered up enough money for "the first responders," I am painfully aware of the entire lack of 2nd and 3rd responders throughout the country --- such as the fire last evening.
When the 1st team goes in for, you may say, a busy day, who will be minding the 'burbs? Nobody but volunteers who suddenly realize, that while something big blew up downtown, and the "1st responders" have all rushed there ... well, guess what, out on the beltway around the town, that is where an even bigger disaster awaits, and there are absolutely no firemen, no fire trucks, no water, few ambulances, and ten thousand people in need of the now lost "1st responders."
Nobody is watching the schoolyards to make sure that some Muslims do not plant a few landmines brought in from Kosovo. Nobody is watching the outside of the buildings which are on the threat list.
There's just a whole lot of inside discussion that is near incredible in its centricity.
You could drive up to that gasoline depot and leave with 10,000 gallons of fuel, and nobody would stop you; there is nobody there, even tonight.
Sleep tight.
A point all should take notice of is that there were 4 exits with very few knowing of or taking advantage of same. Terribly sad.
If I was inclinded to visit such places at all, I would have been out of there as soon as the fireworks started going off in such a crowded and confied space ... but since I am not so inclined, I would not have been there in the first place.
We need some global "fire-retardant" material right now in many of our policies and a lot of vigilism right here at home IMHO. I pray we as a people will rise to the occassion and do so.
We were kicking it around; Sabertooth ran a bunch of threads on it as I recall.
Explain that 95% of people will head for the main entrance, and die in the crush.
Always point out to them the side and back exits, so they will get in the habit of looking for them.
Point out windows, and what can be used to break them open (chairs, lamps, tables).
This is important stuff to impart to our kids.
I posteed an article on a way to prepare and one that could be extrapolated to include the 2nd and 3rd responder role.
Here it is on my site:
It also had two great and lengthy discussion threads here on FR.
I produce a working version of it in my series of novels when our nation is faced with a fictional scenario similar to all of the things you spoke of in your post.
CHICAGO -- Authorities said 21 people were killed and dozens of others were seriously injured at a south side night club, when they were crushed while trying to exit through a single door.
Did I just see _Jim endorse a conspiracy theory??? I thought you were the resident debunker...
Always important, but articluarly in these times.
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