Zander
Platinum Member
This country’s real enemy is it’s own federal governmentHow about for instance, restricting events that will have large crowds if the venue is out in the open, and it's situated next to high rise hotels, apts., businesses, etc. ?
How about restricting buildings to below the heights airplanes can fly?
I think a far better solution would be to hire designated sniper teams to provide an overwatch for large scale events like these. Additionally I would have smoke grenades for the various security guards to use so that in the event of a active shooter they could deploy them to make his task all that much harder.
That's kind of knee jerk if you ask me. This only happened one time in such a venue and likely would not happen again in the future. The idea of terrorism is to terrorize people forcing them walk on eggshells from that point on.
As bad as 911 was and the deaths that took place, the real delight for terrorists is what happened afterwards. Random searches of airport passengers, TSA agents and their body scanners, long waits at airports, shutting down of operations because somebody found a suspicious looking luggage bag, things like that.
As a truck driver I can honestly say how it greatly effected air freight deliveries and pickups although I'm not at liberty to say how. What I can tell you is that 911 made it a real pain in the ass for all of us due to overreaction and over precautions. The terrorists are still winning over fifteen years after their attack. They share delight in our paranoia.
We can't let this unfortunate incident change the way we live. We can't allow liberals to cash in on this tragedy. The worst thing we could do is disallow outdoor concerts next to tall buildings, or have a militant presence at every event. Look at us! We are discussing the use of bump stock even though it was never used before and probably never will be used again even if left legal.
There is nothing wrong with learning from this situation, but what would be wrong is for us to be expecting a similar attack in the future and taking ridiculous precautions like having snipers at each event. If a hotel (or whatever) next to an event sees something unusual, no doubt, report it to somebody. In 99% of the cases, it would probably be nothing. But allowing us to be terrorized for the rest of our lives would be a huge win for this maniac; even worse if he did have some connection to a terrorist group.
But the right ARE cashing in on this.
Let's be tough against the Muslims, it gives the US a common enemy with which to focus their power. We need more military spending, we need more troops out in the world, we need to be tough, be strong.
I'm reading a book about naval power by Robert K Massey, a great writer of history books, mostly about the Russian Royal Family.
When Germany became an empire, it had little to no navy. Then Wilhelm II and Tirpitz came along. Both wanted to have a Navy. They had not real reason to justify having a huge navy, their enemies were France and Russia, or Austria, or anyone they had to defeat on land, not at sea. So they literally made England out to be the enemy. They found reasons to pick fights with England to promote their navy building. And they succeeded.
The US does the same. It makes the enemy to justify the spending of money. It uses FEAR to get that spending. Fear of terrorists. You fear terrorists more because of the security measure and the way the media sensationalizes the attacks. Every attack by Muslims is seen as a reason to increase security. Every attack by a white American is ignored because white America isn't the enemy.
Bush went into Iraq. More for US interests to do with OPEC, but the aftermath was a complete balls up. Or so it seemed. But the reality is the post war fuck up has enhanced the right's claims against terrorism massively. It's brought NATO back to the US more and more.
It all seems so planned.
Sadly, this is true. Leviathan is out of control.