Terror in the heartland
Thank goodness. Kansas City has a Anti-terrorism organization in place to help protect us. They are called the Terrorism Early Warning Group. At their site, you can get references as pointless as recognizing suspicious packages.
I suppose we are going to be safer now that this group will be first with the information on terrorist attacks. Hmm, let’s keep reading.
“The TEW is not currently equipped to take direct reports about suspicious activity. In an emergency, please call 9-1-1.”
So basically “terrorism” will be handled as it always has been.
Why is everything that used to be a disturbance, prank, playing music too loud, is now called a terrorist act? War on terror? I encourage anyone who believes this garbage to read Blowback by Chalmers Johnson. Man, back in the day, my friends and I used to blow off soda bottle bombs with a little of The Works and tin foil. I wonder if I was 15 today and doing those sort of things, if I might be on some watch list. We all need to calm down.
Speaking of calm, let’s take it down to the soothing blue color in the Terror Threat Advisory. It means Guarded: General Risk of Terror Attacks. Are we at significant risk here? We’re guarded, things are pretty much handled. By the way, here’s a clue that we are going to be yellow for a long time. If you look on the websites that post this Threat Advisory graphic, they aren’t displaying the Advisory based on live real time data or anything. This is a static .gif file. It ain’t goin nowhere. The country could explode and we’d still be at yellow.
April 10, 2006 at 10:55 am | police, politics, rants | No comment
