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Wednesday, September 2, 2009
12:23 PM
Though all human beings have the capacity to lead themselves to freedom, given the situation with two wars and a lot of new immigrants from those regions who are day laborers by trade, the risk of them bringing their battle tactics with them is real.
Basic background checks of laborers are great, if they're not working under the table. If security is our priority, immigration reform is the only way to bring all our citizens on board, so they don't face liability from HS or IRS, or reprisal from laborers, when they open up their books and register.
For additional security, use of stimulus funds should enable small business. We can kill two birds with one stone. Large organizations with monolithic tiered management are a good place to hide, with layers of trust relationships to manipulate. If we spend smaller amounts of money in more places, we can use independent contractors to cross-check other contractors' work. The more independent citizens we can involve in cross-checking our security, the safer we will be.
The implementation of roadside bomb networks in the United States is entirely possible by only a few terrorist cells working independently, without communication to any central authority. All they have to do is plug in a cell-phone triggered bomb in a box on the street with access to electricity to keep it charged. They could keep their numbers and trigger them on the target day with a personal computer and phone modem. With extra batteries or more sophisticated radio triggers, they could be buried underneath a paving patch of asphalt, and no one would ever know.
Just as it is up to us to take action and save ourselves from a plane hijacking, so it is also up to us to keep those real, deluded souls out there from hijacking our entire "infrastructure" using the inexpensive, improvised tactics that have killed so many of our brothers and sisters in Iraq and Afghanistan.
roadside bombs in stimulus construction?
How have we ensured that stimulus money to "rebuild the infrastructure" does not do so in an unsafe way?Though all human beings have the capacity to lead themselves to freedom, given the situation with two wars and a lot of new immigrants from those regions who are day laborers by trade, the risk of them bringing their battle tactics with them is real.
Basic background checks of laborers are great, if they're not working under the table. If security is our priority, immigration reform is the only way to bring all our citizens on board, so they don't face liability from HS or IRS, or reprisal from laborers, when they open up their books and register.
For additional security, use of stimulus funds should enable small business. We can kill two birds with one stone. Large organizations with monolithic tiered management are a good place to hide, with layers of trust relationships to manipulate. If we spend smaller amounts of money in more places, we can use independent contractors to cross-check other contractors' work. The more independent citizens we can involve in cross-checking our security, the safer we will be.
The implementation of roadside bomb networks in the United States is entirely possible by only a few terrorist cells working independently, without communication to any central authority. All they have to do is plug in a cell-phone triggered bomb in a box on the street with access to electricity to keep it charged. They could keep their numbers and trigger them on the target day with a personal computer and phone modem. With extra batteries or more sophisticated radio triggers, they could be buried underneath a paving patch of asphalt, and no one would ever know.
Just as it is up to us to take action and save ourselves from a plane hijacking, so it is also up to us to keep those real, deluded souls out there from hijacking our entire "infrastructure" using the inexpensive, improvised tactics that have killed so many of our brothers and sisters in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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