Enhanced security alert.
Feb 11th 2003 | 4:30 am
#16
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Re: Enhanced security alert.
"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote
> And that's about all the practical use it has! If we let it
> disrupt our lives, the "bad guys" have won, hands down.
Yup. What's new. Last time I flew through Heathrow there were armoured
cars and armed squaddies at the airport. They're back again. Last time
I walked through Belfast there were armoured cars and armed squaddies
on the streets, checking cars and buses. Terrorism may be something
new and frightening to the USA but in Britain we've been living with
it and coping with it for decades. In fact the risks are probably
lower now than they were in much of the 70s and 80s.
I actually felt very safe in Belfast (even though I felt the
vibrations of one bomb blast). No one was going to try stealing my
wallet with police on every street corner.
Owain
> And that's about all the practical use it has! If we let it
> disrupt our lives, the "bad guys" have won, hands down.
Yup. What's new. Last time I flew through Heathrow there were armoured
cars and armed squaddies at the airport. They're back again. Last time
I walked through Belfast there were armoured cars and armed squaddies
on the streets, checking cars and buses. Terrorism may be something
new and frightening to the USA but in Britain we've been living with
it and coping with it for decades. In fact the risks are probably
lower now than they were in much of the 70s and 80s.
I actually felt very safe in Belfast (even though I felt the
vibrations of one bomb blast). No one was going to try stealing my
wallet with police on every street corner.
Owain
Feb 11th 2003 | 11:48 am
#17
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Re: Enhanced security alert.
Paul Tauger wrote:
> Not red, but orange, which is one below red, and one above the rest of
> country until yesterday.
You're right, of course. Somehow I was thinking that Red was one level
below Severe.
>
> Most of the changes in NYC would not be visible to the average person. The
> Governor and Mayor of New York explained that New York has done such things
> as deployed monitoring personnel to test for biological, chemical and
> radiological weapons, notified virtually every doctor in the state re:
> emergency plans, etc. As for not seeing any difference, you need only drive
> through the Midtown Tunnel and see the police stationed near the tunnel
> entrance, observing every vehicle going through the tunnel, and pulling over
> trucks and busses.
>
Thinking back, there was a difference between 8 September when I drove
round trip via Manhattan from Danbury CT to Hoboken NJ, and 10 September
when I drove r/t to Lincoln Center. There was a lot of activity at the
GW Bridge along the HH Pkwy on the return trip about midnight. I don't
know when the barriers were set up at Lincoln Center. They were present
early on the 10th but my impression was that they had been there for
some time already.
> Not red, but orange, which is one below red, and one above the rest of
> country until yesterday.
You're right, of course. Somehow I was thinking that Red was one level
below Severe.
>
> Most of the changes in NYC would not be visible to the average person. The
> Governor and Mayor of New York explained that New York has done such things
> as deployed monitoring personnel to test for biological, chemical and
> radiological weapons, notified virtually every doctor in the state re:
> emergency plans, etc. As for not seeing any difference, you need only drive
> through the Midtown Tunnel and see the police stationed near the tunnel
> entrance, observing every vehicle going through the tunnel, and pulling over
> trucks and busses.
>
Thinking back, there was a difference between 8 September when I drove
round trip via Manhattan from Danbury CT to Hoboken NJ, and 10 September
when I drove r/t to Lincoln Center. There was a lot of activity at the
GW Bridge along the HH Pkwy on the return trip about midnight. I don't
know when the barriers were set up at Lincoln Center. They were present
early on the 10th but my impression was that they had been there for
some time already.
