CTA false alarms demonstrate how the terrorists have won
CTA has suffered several false terror alarms--four in the past week. In the latest incident, a caller claimed there were four bombs aboard a Purple Line train. Earlier disruptions involved unattended baggage and another bomb threat.
This is yet another example of how we have lost the war on terror. We have allowed our lives to be changed for the worse. Barricades all over the national capital stand as barriers to freedom and are a disgrace to what this country stands for. Officers with yard-long machine guns patrol our transit systems, bringing us one step closer to being a totalitarian police state. We scatter in fear whenever a poor soul claims to have a bomb (while forgetting that the London bombers and the 9/11 hijackers did not call Scotland Yard or the NYPD before launching their assaults.)
Pushing my rant aside to return to the topic at hand--transit--I hope the bosses at my system, WMATA, don't continue to shutter the system whenever a random bomb threat comes in. Not only do I hate being delayed on the train, but closures for silly bomb threats add nothing to our security. Real terrorists want bodies. Anonymous bomb threat callers want attention.
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massysett | 07:14 AM |
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I agree with your analysis, although the managers of these systems are stuck in a hard place - they cannot ignore even what seems like ludicrous threats.
I think you would be very interested in the Security writings of Bruce Schneier: http://www.schneier.com/blog/
