Pevey
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Pevey, to be quite frank, you could place boxes with the word "BOMB" in bright fluorescent letters, 24" high, and people will still miss them. unquote.
Ah, thats the thing. Most terrorist devices will not say "bomb" or "boom" or even look like a bomb. A successful explosive will look harmless. Just like a blinking sign. :banghead:
Of course they were harmless. They will be harmless 99.9 percent of the time. Unless some kid with internet access gets ambitious and kills someone by accident making a project. Or that one in a million terror thing happens.
The thing is, who is wrong, Boston for closing down a city or someplace like Austin or Seattle for sending a couple of squad cars to check it out. It's hard to choose. It's always overkill until someone IS killed. Then its a different story. Then it's, why were you slack, why didn't you do your job, why didn't you detain those 19 guys when you had the chance.
Thats why we in the game have to be consistant, have to be careful, have to overkill. We do not follow the whims of a taunting and carefree public, who's opinion blows with the wind and who's memory is very short. Thats why some of us look at pictures of those towers every day, read alerts and analyse trends, talk and plan and, occasionally, over-react in a glorious fashion. We laugh at those too. Some of us in the funny clothes take our job seriously even if we are regarded less than highly sometimes. Embassment may be frequent but failure is not a option.
BTW, God I love my job.
Pevey, to be quite frank, you could place boxes with the word "BOMB" in bright fluorescent letters, 24" high, and people will still miss them. unquote.
Ah, thats the thing. Most terrorist devices will not say "bomb" or "boom" or even look like a bomb. A successful explosive will look harmless. Just like a blinking sign. :banghead:
Of course they were harmless. They will be harmless 99.9 percent of the time. Unless some kid with internet access gets ambitious and kills someone by accident making a project. Or that one in a million terror thing happens.
The thing is, who is wrong, Boston for closing down a city or someplace like Austin or Seattle for sending a couple of squad cars to check it out. It's hard to choose. It's always overkill until someone IS killed. Then its a different story. Then it's, why were you slack, why didn't you do your job, why didn't you detain those 19 guys when you had the chance.
Thats why we in the game have to be consistant, have to be careful, have to overkill. We do not follow the whims of a taunting and carefree public, who's opinion blows with the wind and who's memory is very short. Thats why some of us look at pictures of those towers every day, read alerts and analyse trends, talk and plan and, occasionally, over-react in a glorious fashion. We laugh at those too. Some of us in the funny clothes take our job seriously even if we are regarded less than highly sometimes. Embassment may be frequent but failure is not a option.
BTW, God I love my job.