Sometimes, I just despair....
Sep. 14th, 2010 04:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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In the comments to this post on spending all of a preschool's fundraising money on a fancy-pants security system with PINs and everything....
Anyone ever hear of Beslan?
Most anti-terrorism experts believe that Beslan was a dress rehearsal for what they will do to our children here in America. They believe that the plan will include hitting multiple schools in multiple cities across America. Small cities, preferably.
Please don’t take security at schools lightly. We are not dealing with ordinary, every-day risks. We are at war.
http://www.terroratbeslan.com/
1. Beslan was in 2006.
2. Who, exactly, are the "experts" who think this was a dress rehearsal for the US, and why do they think that?
3. Who is "they" exactly? Since when are we at war with Chechnya? I even double-checked this because, honestly, who can keep track nowadays, but happily it seems we're still not fighting there.
4. How, exactly, will having PIN codes prevent terrorists from harming children? This is the fatal gap in logic that baffles me. I mean, the rest does too, but this one - yeah.
Anybody sufficiently determined to do harm will find a way to do it. They're not going to be stopped by a security system, they'll either find a way around it or change the location of their attack. Look at the planes - you scan for guns, people bring knives. You lock the cockpit, people bring bombs. You scan for bombs in the obvious places, they find weird places. You make people take off their shoes, they stick a bomb in their undies. (Admittedly, most of these were stupid plans, but that's not the point.) You can't possibly predict everything. There is no way to guard against every contingency. It simply cannot be done, and it's pure madness to even try.
Make the obvious changes that at least weed out the most lazy attackers, and don't worry about the rest. If there starts to be an actual rise in terrorism in US schools, then we can change what we do. But changing because of bizarre and hopeless what-ifs (and ones that wouldn't even work for what she thinks, incidentally) is just... it's not only not helpful, it's counterproductive.
Anyone ever hear of Beslan?
Most anti-terrorism experts believe that Beslan was a dress rehearsal for what they will do to our children here in America. They believe that the plan will include hitting multiple schools in multiple cities across America. Small cities, preferably.
Please don’t take security at schools lightly. We are not dealing with ordinary, every-day risks. We are at war.
http://www.terroratbeslan.com/
1. Beslan was in 2006.
2. Who, exactly, are the "experts" who think this was a dress rehearsal for the US, and why do they think that?
3. Who is "they" exactly? Since when are we at war with Chechnya? I even double-checked this because, honestly, who can keep track nowadays, but happily it seems we're still not fighting there.
4. How, exactly, will having PIN codes prevent terrorists from harming children? This is the fatal gap in logic that baffles me. I mean, the rest does too, but this one - yeah.
Anybody sufficiently determined to do harm will find a way to do it. They're not going to be stopped by a security system, they'll either find a way around it or change the location of their attack. Look at the planes - you scan for guns, people bring knives. You lock the cockpit, people bring bombs. You scan for bombs in the obvious places, they find weird places. You make people take off their shoes, they stick a bomb in their undies. (Admittedly, most of these were stupid plans, but that's not the point.) You can't possibly predict everything. There is no way to guard against every contingency. It simply cannot be done, and it's pure madness to even try.
Make the obvious changes that at least weed out the most lazy attackers, and don't worry about the rest. If there starts to be an actual rise in terrorism in US schools, then we can change what we do. But changing because of bizarre and hopeless what-ifs (and ones that wouldn't even work for what she thinks, incidentally) is just... it's not only not helpful, it's counterproductive.
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Date: 2010-09-14 11:42 pm (UTC)Obviously.
I mean honestly. How fucking ethnocentric can you get. Alllll the world's problems must revolve around me me me. It's unthinkable that somewhere else in the world people might kill their neighbours for reasons which have fuck all to do with the USA.
*Sidenote: Did you know Sikhism is the only major world religion which has never suffered a schism? It's such a young one that there hasn't really been time for one yet. But there are fears there will be one in the near future - I think because they're just about reaching that point where traditionalism and modernism are looking different enough that people will start taking sides.
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Date: 2010-09-14 11:54 pm (UTC)Bet she thinks 9/11 happened because "they hate us for our freeeeeeeeeedoms" too.