Dumbed Down Security

It is really mind bending that Bush & Co. and their supporters are getting away with leaving primary U.S. targets for terrorist attacks virtually unprotected. It is a notorious fact now that the bulk of the monies allocated to security protection are lumped towards: 1) airplane passengers, 2) pork allocations to every little non-target that can muster a sheriff to spend hundreds of thousands on totally unneeded vehicles, guns, protective garb, whatever.

In the meantime millions of uninspected shipping crates are entering and being transported freely anywhere addressed in this country. Any one could carry a nuclear or chemical weapon potentially timed to go off anywhere. Similarly our subways -- at least in NYC -- are increasingly being stripped of protections as a cheap economy measure. Numerous subway entrances are totally unguarded and now we are going to remove conductors from subway trains who could at least open the doors and guide people to safety in the instance of a London/Madrid type incident.

I think those who deny these fundamental facts are being disingenuous. Needless to say spot checks of bags at those subway entrances that are manned are not going to do the trick. Just need to take a cab to the nearest unguarded station entrance -- or walk to it.

We are living in a less-than-virtual-reality world so far as real security is concerned -- with our troops increasingly bogged down in the Middle East in a pointlessly created training ground for terrorists -- conveniently providing red hot recruitment materials for potential jihadists down the line. Needless to say the American public has been incredibly dumbed down by the media blitzkrieg in the face of such basic facts! I was infinitely relieved to have my wife far away from Wall St. yesterday and its subway station, following a radio interview with her carried out there. She was a near miss with a similar appointment near the former World Trade Center, 9 a.m., 9/11/01!
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