Posted on 11/11/2001 5:06:02 PM PST by UnChained
On Sept 11th, 20 suicidal terrorists managed to kill over 5000 people. In the wake of that event all manner of extra security measures have been put in place at airports and in other places and yet for all that nothing that has been put in place would prevent terrorists from bringing some really nasty ceramic or nylon knives onto some jets and trying a repeat performance. We, and any terrorists know that it wouldn't work because americans aboard aircraft will never go meekly to death again.
How many times have you heard people say lately"Go on living your lives normally or you let the terrorists win."?
The terrorists didn't commit their attacks to get us to cancel the Emmy's or cancel football games but I believe that we should cancel events that are likely targets.
What could 20 suicidal killers at the SuperBowl do.
Picture 90,000 carefully disarmed fans in the Superbowl in the New Orleans superdome. On the inside are a few terrorists whose job it is to bring some plastic containers of something nasty like nerve gas into the stadium. Even tear gas would have lethal results in an enclosed stadium. (it's happened before with hundreds dead.
Simultaneous with the release of the gas inside each entrance to the building is an attack on each entrance by groups of heavily armed terrorists with body armor. They kill anyone who tries to stop them and park themselves in the exit tunnels and kill anyone trying to get out until the corridor is blocked with bodies.
There would be plenty of media coverage and the death toll could surpass WTC considerably. Do we trust the terrorists not to do something this terrible? It's irresponsible to try to pretend that life is normal. The attack on New York should be more of a wake up call than it is.
We live on, in defiance. Why did Bush put himself in the middle of a field surrounded by tens of thousands of people with no security close to him? We will not change our lives for these @$$holes.
I'm living my life, but I tend to steer the people I care about away from places and events that might be "juicy" targets from a terrorist's perspective. Nothing in New Orleans would qualify but the upcoming SuperBowl
Does Loooziana have a CCW law? Are concealed guns allowed into sports stadiums there? If so, many of these fans should be packing some serious heat.
If armed citizens are not permitted into stadiums, I wouldn't be caught dead there. I generally hate sports anyway, but I am reluctant to go anywhere that I am not permitted to exercise my most basic human right - self-defense.
I know that a bullet does little good against chem/bio attacks, but one pattern that the islamiturds will exhibit over and over again is that they will NOT pick a target where they know the citizens are well-armed. Count on it.
It's Murphy's law time. Whatever bad that can happen, WILL happen.
There is massive press coverage at a SuperBowl. It would be better PR back home for the bad guys. The Superbowl is very symbolic, it's as American as apple pie as they say. Terrorist attacks tend to go for symbolic targets.
There wasn't much time for advance planning for that target. I think the terrorists behaved shrewdly and waited to get their ducks in a row before the WTC attack. A quick and likely unsuccessful attempt on GWB at Yankee stadium would make us shut down on sporting events before they had a chance to execute a well planned attack on a Domed stadium
I can only imagine that the security will be even higher at the Super Bowl. The scenario you describe cannot take place because the terrorists would have bullets in them in the blink of an eye.
Also consider: Cowboys (Dallas) game on Thanksgiving, Nov 22th. Thanksgiving, Nov 22th, 1990 was the day G H W Bush first set foot on Arab soil to address the troops for Gulf War.
Correct about the movie. It starred Bruce Dern as the psychotic veteran (unfortunate stereotyping of course), Marthe Keller as a female terrorist, Fritz Weaver as an FBI agent, and best of all Robert Shaw as an Israeli agent.
My favorite line: when the Shaw character says to the Weaver character (after the two have killed a terrorist, and are going through things in the terrorist's hotel room) "Mr. Corley, what exactly is this 'Super Bowl'?"
Do we trust the terrorists not to do something this terrible?
Of course not. That's why there will be lots of security.
It's irresponsible to try to pretend that life is normal.
That's why each person will have to decide for himself what his priorities in life are going to be and how much risk he is willing to take to achieve them.
I had my priorities pretty well figured out before 9/11, so I have made very little change. I spend more time at FR than I should, because I want to learn about my enemy and what's going on. Other than that, I ALWAYS wash my hands after opening the mail; and I now carry a camera everywhere I go, in case I come across anyone suspicious.
I have replenished emergency items and stocked a little ahead, but I do that periodically anyway because we have hurricanes in the summer and snow "emergencies" in the winter. When the story came out about the Pakistani arrested in Israel for having the radiologic backpack, I ordered some potassium iodate for my family. (I doubt that it will ever be needed, but having it on hand is one less worry.)
The flag flies outside my home every day and I have a flag on my car.
Other than those few things, nothing else has changed. I still go all the same places I did before and just as often.
You are the only one who can decide what your priorities will be. If absolute safety is more important to you than seeing friends and family, going shopping, or going to crowded events like the Superbowl, then stay home. Otherwise, realize that the odds of something happening to YOU personally are not much greater than they were before 9/11.
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