Thanks, Nords for your "real-life" description. I think newguy888 is understandably infected with the "extreme paranoia" virus.. in this sense it's kinda backfiring.
The gov't. has led us to believe that the terrorist threat is so widespread/imminent/crafty that:
- our phones and e-mail and financial transactions must be monitored, and our mail opened
- the 'no-fly' list keeps us safe from all the Robert Johnsons and David Nelsons and Ted Kennedys who must be detained for hours and strip-searched at airports
- breast milk and hand cream are potentially dangerous articles
- politicians are calling for electronic monitoring leg bracelets for all Muslims in the US...
- the official list of "high-risk" targets includes things like water parks and we've paid untold millions so they can buy night-vision goggles and biohazard detectors in places like Kansas and Wisconsin..
etc. etc.
Seeing as you need to empty your pockets and go through a metal detector and possibly turn in your cell phone to go into Federal/State bldg.s... In newguy's defense, I can see why someone might be led to believe a miltary installation of whatever kind might not leave itself open to just any "Candy-Gram!"
I understand the rationale that leads to military "business as usual".. would that the average person could do the same.
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After almost 5 years.. the DHS
still debating over the NADB:
http://www.dhs.gov/xoig/assets/mgmtrpts/OIG_06-40_Jun06.pdf
"Some classes of assets where national criticality
needs to be
determined include 1,305 casinos, 25 golf courses, 24 swimming
pools, 44 recreational centers and 163 water parks. Other asset types
and quantities reported included 130 public libraries, 159 cruise ships,
34 Coca Cola bottlers/distributors, 244 correctional facilities, 718
mortuaries, 571 nursing homes, and 3,773 malls, of which only 399
met DHS’ criteria of over 1 million square feet."
:
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Like.. "
the mortuaries we'll buy as a critical terror target but we
might need a little convincing on the golf courses. We'll get back to you in a couple of Friedman Units..."
"Illinois, home to some of the nation’s tallest buildings in its city of
Chicago, listed 28 tall buildings or just two-thirds as many as the 41
reported in Indiana."
"New York lists only two percent of the nation’s banking & finance
sector assets, ranking between North Dakota and Missouri."
Again, this is the point they are at in 2006, three years after initiating the database.
Can't someone just Google the tallest buildings? Are we saying the DoD doesn't know what our nation-criitical infrastructure is? Is this all make-work for a bunch of people, or is this for real?
The fact that anyone is even wasting time writing up reports like this is depressing in itself.