by SemperFiSep11
It seems incredibly apparant that no one here, in the National Guard, in the NYPD, and certainly not in the Republican or Democratic Party have any clue how to deal with terrorism and this whole topic proves it.
What will plainclothes people on trains do? Search everyone's bag for a bomb? Yeah, the world has tried police states many times and they seem to, for the most part, have failed.
National Guard troops? Here's a great idea. Men and women with M-16A2 rifles, with no training in counter terrorism, and no purpose! What are they to do with those rifles? Shoot a suspected bomber? That'll be great. If we give orders like that, let's suspect 9 or 10 dead dark skinned people shot for being dark skinned and nothing else. A National Guardsman is part of the broad sword referred to as the United States Army. We cannot do with a broadsword what needs to be done with a scalpel.
We live in a free country. Sometimes bad things will happen. That is called the price of freedom. That is what our soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines are paying right now in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the rest of those dump-holes we're in. All of this cry-baby whining over terrorism needs to stop before we end up having to check in and out of our own homes since that might help save "just one life." I've been to Israel. I know what it's like getting on a bus not knowing if you're going to be getting off. But somehow, despite living like that, they remain free people and don't implement feel-good political solutions to problems (such as shutting down NYP). They do what the British did in WWII. Stiff upper lip and all, old chap. Until we learn that, we might as well get used to our train stations being closed and getting probed by people who couldn't even graduate high school much less spell the name of thier job...Security Screener.
Off of the political thing, shutting down Penn Station seems sort of counter productive in that thousands of people will be at these conventions and will no doubt want an easy way to get there. I'm sure the Republicans will be more than happy to have Jeeves drive them in thier expensive SUVs, but perhaps the Democrats, since they "feel our pain" (whatever), will realize that since they are populists, they should do what is right for the people.
What will plainclothes people on trains do? Search everyone's bag for a bomb? Yeah, the world has tried police states many times and they seem to, for the most part, have failed.
National Guard troops? Here's a great idea. Men and women with M-16A2 rifles, with no training in counter terrorism, and no purpose! What are they to do with those rifles? Shoot a suspected bomber? That'll be great. If we give orders like that, let's suspect 9 or 10 dead dark skinned people shot for being dark skinned and nothing else. A National Guardsman is part of the broad sword referred to as the United States Army. We cannot do with a broadsword what needs to be done with a scalpel.
We live in a free country. Sometimes bad things will happen. That is called the price of freedom. That is what our soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines are paying right now in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the rest of those dump-holes we're in. All of this cry-baby whining over terrorism needs to stop before we end up having to check in and out of our own homes since that might help save "just one life." I've been to Israel. I know what it's like getting on a bus not knowing if you're going to be getting off. But somehow, despite living like that, they remain free people and don't implement feel-good political solutions to problems (such as shutting down NYP). They do what the British did in WWII. Stiff upper lip and all, old chap. Until we learn that, we might as well get used to our train stations being closed and getting probed by people who couldn't even graduate high school much less spell the name of thier job...Security Screener.
Off of the political thing, shutting down Penn Station seems sort of counter productive in that thousands of people will be at these conventions and will no doubt want an easy way to get there. I'm sure the Republicans will be more than happy to have Jeeves drive them in thier expensive SUVs, but perhaps the Democrats, since they "feel our pain" (whatever), will realize that since they are populists, they should do what is right for the people.