[Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] QUOTE
All dutch helicopter companies, including ours, received a fax from the authorities this morning, warning of 'journalists' that will attempt to proove our natuional security is flawed, by staging an 'air assault' over the country on sept. 11th.
Geez guys, get a life already. I've posted the fax on my dutch weblog.
UNQUOTE [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]
I think the threat to National Security is more from Journalists than from Air Companies, from the perspective of doing something stupid.
Many people, who work in Air Companies learned their trade, as military pilots, or have around them people of that patriotic perspective that can provide a sense of balance.
The risk from Air Companies is that in the management of costs, there will be a trade off that sacrifices safety and security.
It is self evident to anyone, who lives in a democracy, that various national monuments and institutions can be seriously hit by something like the Oklahoma City Bombing, if the perpetrators do not care if they get caught, and the only way to protect ourselves is to become a police state.
If you doubt this, show me your credentials (such as a policeman badge) that you have need to know my theories on how bad guys could hit the very stuff that is sacred to our democracy, such as various government buildings and important places to the infrastructure of our economy, and I will tell you how, but not via a public forum.
Now some commentators seem to have an attitude that parallels that of Juvenile Computer Crackers ... hey, here is a weakness not properly protected ... broadcasting it daring someone to find a solution, and meanwhile the bad guys have been delivered of an idea that perhaps they might not have dreamed up for a while, so the article has just made the job of Homeland Security that much more difficult to get done.
This is reminiscent of past wars where journalists pretended to be impartial. Remember Saddam's troops shooting up various air conditioning ducts in downtown Kuwait? Why did they do that? Well some refugees crossing the border to freedom were surrounded by journalists to cover their story, and among other things they said they hid in air conditioning ducts of some office buildings. Saddam's military intelligence was watching Western media and picked up on that information, and other clues about how people were escaping, and some refugees did not make it out safely, thanks to many journalists not understanding that loose lips sink ships.
What we need are private briefings in executive session to Legislators and Homeland Security agency workers, to make sure that they are aware of things that people in other professions can see.
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