The news networks have done it again.
They've reported that the threat of a dirty bomb in NYC is a possibility. They've even mentioned Washington and the White House as a target.
Why? Because today in New York they held some sort of dress rehearsal to tracking down and finding a dirty bomb.
On the vid clip: guys carrying Geiger counters, cops with assault rifles running around, helicopters monitoring, random truck inspections, and a little robot that scans the underside of boats.
It all makes me wonder. Why show all of this in plain site? Is it to sooth our nerves, or make terrorists more aware of our tactics? Is it a show to scare them off, or is it going to excite them?
I don't like to use the word terrorist ever since George Bush started pronouncing it "Turrrirists!" Not all people who fight against governments are terrorists, and to label them so indicates a total lack of understanding. I can recall the same use of "Guerrilla fighter" way back in the '70s. Evey time I heard those words, I flinched. Today's guerrilla is a terrorist. Same difference.
On the news they mentioned "The Sum of All Fears" (the movie) as an example of what might happen should "Turrirists" get a dirty bomb into a city. Not pretty. I saw the movie. It was a little strange, watching as a city went through radiation poisoning. Not mentioned was the aftermath of such an attacks, how many people would be effected in the long term, and how it could be stopped.
So we're stuck hoping that our radiation police are out and about, scanning continuously- and I just can't see that happening. Have you ever been in the city at night, say, 3am? You'd know how quiet it can get in some areas. That's the hour I'd fear the most - that quiet time when only the rats scurry about.
Security has relaxed quite a bit since 9/11. I think it's time that we got serious about making sure that radioactive devices never hit our shores in the first place.
And someone give Bush some speech lessons, PLEASE?!
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