The CG has been charged with securing the LNG tanker farm loading/unloading area where the big lng tankers offload right in Boston harbor for all intents and purposes. That should be reason enough to have their presence there, if the terrs blow up the facility in Chelsea, all of Boston will be a big fireball. Plenty of reason to have them armed to the teeth in the harbor.
As well, from the harbor, terrs could set off a SAM and take out any airplanes while landing or taking off. Most of the dlegates flew into Boston, anyone not understand why the protection around the harbor now?
One of the easiest routes/plans to come up with is to go by way of the harbor and channels which crisscross the area and allow access to within a few hundred yards of major oil deopts, lng farms, the airport and downtown Boston.
If the DNC convention had been held in your city, you would be seeing the same type of security as Boston has this week while everyone is in town to play at the convention.
Questioning why all the security, or even where the security is coming from seems a bit naive to be, unless you have not been reading the papers, viewing the news reports, listening to the radio and are out of touch with the real world for the last couple of years.
Hysteria, the reporting of the NG roaming the city this week, thats what that poster wanted to induce here. I work in the city everyday, I have not seen NGmen roaming the city streets enmass at all. And I'm right in the middle of the areas where they would be stationed during the convention.
They are around, but not showing a great force in numbers as has been alluded to by others here in an attempt to stir the pot as it were. The NG has not taken over Boston by any means. Nor have the press reported it as so, but then some here always take the oportunity to scream about the injustices and abuses heaped upon us by the establishment.
I got stopped and questioned at the South Station in Boston a few weeks ago by an MBTA and State Police "team". They asked some basic questions and I caught my train home no problem. They are not the goon squad types, did not show any attitudes which would be demeaning or abusive in the least. Very professional and soft spoken.
While I agree that all the security amounts to a hill of beans in reality, the show of force here this week may just keep some people from attempting to disrupt the convention or cause havoc as the risk of getting caught is very high right now.
Last thing I want to see in Boston is another attack this week. Security is not tight, but it is present in numbers and that alone is a deterrent to some of the potentials I can think of.
Brownie
