Posted on 05/19/2002 9:57:31 AM PDT by doug from upland
In a major U.S. city on a Sunday afternoon I did a field test. I walked around 5 multi-storied beautiful glass buildings for about an hour. I walked on the interior of the premises. I was able to get security information from a parking guard without a request for my ID. I spent time taking notes and taking pictures. No one asked me what I was doing on the property!
Had I been a terrorist with a car bomb, I could have easily driven on a grass area between the buildings, blown out the glass in all the buildings, and done tens of millions, maybe even hundreds of millions of dollars worth of damage. Perhaps some of the buildings would have been taken down. Had the terrorist scenario played out during business hours, hundreds and hundreds of lives would have been lost.
We are not paying attention and have gotten complacent since 9-11. It worries me greatly.
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