[ RadSafe ] RE: Little Leagues and Radioactive Terrorism

[Shawn Hughes (Road2)]

Quote: "I should think this would be intimidating.  Youi're trying to watch
a baseball game and all of a sudden a bunch of gorillas packing 
heat are standing over you asking  nosy personal question.  In this age of
post-Sept. 11 paranoia I doubt that the interrogators were very 
congenial.  I wonder if any of them have wives?"

Ignoring the baited comment as to referring to me as a gorilla, I would say
that we have always been as polite and as unobtrusive as the situation would
allow. Especially in light of the Health Information Portability Act.
Generally, the way things are handled is once an above-background reading is
made, the area of the anomaly is narrowed down using devices that do not
resemble the classic 'frisker' you here may be familiar with. At that point,
when the spike is narrowed to as few physical entities (could be a package,
could be a vehicle, on occasion a person) as possible, that person is
approached by Law Enforcement trained in for lack of a better term
'radiological incidents', and identifies themself. Packages and vehicles are
handled similarly - in a manner designed to not cause alarm. Most of the
time, the panic would be a greater risk for injury than the finding.

I won't go into the details, but the dialog is somewhere along the line of
that we are testing equipment designed to better help in radiation
accidents, and for some reason, the sensors indicate a mildly higher level
of activity around you. Can you help us to understand why? People with
nothing to hide are always up front about it. Many even have a little card
from their doctor. 


Quote:Is the post-Sept. 11 paraonia so bad that our ostensible protectors
believe terrorists (or perhaps run of the mill crackpots) are going to be 
throwing around 'lethal radioactive substances' at a Little League game? 

If you have to question why, in 2007, a highly publicized event like
children from around the country playing ball might be a target for
violence, I might humbly suggest getting out of the lab more often. I offer
that RAM as a tool for Bad Guys has been a fact for a long time. It is
unclassified that the Russians had an incident where RAM was left in a park
as a demonstration of the ability of a group to use radiation as a weapon.
People have had sources intentionally placed under their seats, and beams
operated through walls towards them as a criminal act. I am sorry if this is
surprising, but it is a reality of the world we live in today. Does it make
me more fearful? Nope. More watchful? Yup.



Quote: I don't know why Oklahoma City was chosen.  My guess is that there
were many reasons for choosing it, and I doubt that its presence in the
"heartland" had much to do with it.

McVeigh had little to do with target selection. His transient lifestyle led
him to people at a compound called 'Elohim City', where they had been
planning for years to blow up the Murrah Building. He drank the koolaid and
the rest is history.



Quote: To answer what I consider to be the most important question, how many
contingencies do you want to prepare for?


Well, ah, we plan for them all. Not just at the government level. So do my
friends and families. There is nothing wrong with being a Prepared Citizen;
it is what seperates us from the rest of the sheeple.



Quote: Shall each of us be assigned a policeman, or FBI agent, or BATF
agent, or Homeland Security agent, or *someone*, to accompany us everywhere
to make certain we don't blow someone up? 

I could be catty here, as you are fond of doing. I will say that in your
theory, you totally ignore the reality of how many people are in Law
Enforcement versus how many people are in the population. It sounds so, so
very good at the rally, but in the real world, it is unworkable. And, I know
you know that, Stephen.




Quote of quotes: Franklin Roosevelt said "The only thing we have to fear is
fear itself."  Thoreau said, "Nothing is to be so much feared as fear."  As
a people and as a nation, we need to get a grip on ourselves.


I can play quote wars with you, but the bottom line is this: taking some
persons' words out of context do not change the fact that history is replete
with examples where lack of attention brought about the downfall of
someone/something/somewhere. You are trying unsuccessfully to link fear and
awareness, and they are not the same concept.



Quote: She might have had a recent bone scan to look for metastases. The
Tc-99m would still be detectable a day later. 

Actually, after I had the nuc treadmill, I was able to detect above
background in me for a couple of days, and especially in my liquid output. 


Quote: That "wires or seeds" might be implanted is to my knowledge a
ridiculous explanation by a wannabe "RADSAFE expert". 


Uh, here's your ridiculous explanation -  AP News: Breast Cancer Treatment
Uses 'Seeds'
http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH/WSIHW000/333/343/345551.html

Google 'brachytherapy' for more.


Have a blessed day, y'all!


-Shawn