May 19, 2009, - 1:35 pm
Just In Case Al-Qaeda & Hezbo Spies Weren’t in Place
By Debbie Schlussel
On Sunday, New York City’s first responders staged a disaster drill at the World Trade Center train station, their largest since 9/11 happened. It included a mock explosion.
While I understand the need to warn New Yorkers ahead of time so they won’t think there’s a real attack (unlike the Obama administration, which believes warnings are for losers and likes to do surprise photo ops), if I were an Al-Qaeda or Hezbollah terrorist or spy, I’d thank the good authorities of New York for giving me a preview of their plans.
Not only did TV ads and train station ads notify New Yorkers–and all interested terrorist parties–of the drill ahead of time, but now there are detailed reports of what happened at the event, for all those terrorists and spies who slept in late and couldn’t make it. From the reports, we know how many responders there were: 800. We know how they wheeled out victims and much more of what they did. Al-Qaeda, pay attention and take note.
This reminds me of mock drills the FBI and other authorities staged in the few years after 9/11, to which they invited representatives of the Islamo-dominated, pro-Hezbollah/HAMAS American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC). It was kind of like, if the enemy won’t come to spy on your plans, send them an invitation. Completely brainless.
Chris Ward, executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said,
The motto for today is: You can never be too prepared.
More like, your enemies can never be too prepared, so invite them to the party to make sure they know your reaction plans and procedures ahead of time. All you have to do is watch DVDs of season one of the now-defunct Showtime series, “Sleeper Cell,” to know how these details can be easily crafted into terrorist attacks.
By the way, this is the same brainy Port Authority that nixed the idea to call the new World Trade Center building, “Freedom Tower,” because they didn’t want to upset the terrorists.
With “leadership” like this, it’s a miracle that city is still around. . . for now.
Feel safe with these bozos in charge? Don’t.
But what’s the alternative? Sit on untested CONCEPTS of disaster response and cross your fingers that they work if the worst happens? That’s not ideal. Indeed, that’s downright stupid.
It’s also important that WE know these response methods work – and if they don’t, then we need to know that too, so they can be promptly fixed.
And think about it: would you rather have terrorists who think we aren’t prepared for this, or terrorists who see that we ARE. This is just as much about prevention as it is about reaction. It’s the principle of the vaccine: show the disease you can kill it, and the disease runs away.
[E: ACTUALLY, DISEASES MUTATE AND BECOME RESISTANT. JUST LIKE TERRORISTS. THERE WERE LOTS OF THINGS THEY COULD HAVE DONE. THEY COULD HAVE CLOSED THE AREA OFF TO SPECTATORS, PERFORMED IT SOMEWHERE ELSE WITH SIMILAR CONDITIONS, AND NOT ADVERTISED IT. A COMBINATION OF THESE THREE WOULD HAVE WORKED WELL. DS]
Eugene on May 19, 2009 at 5:44 pm