[ RadSafe ] Article in todays Washington Post - RadiationDetectors for Border Are Delayed Again

[John Jacobus]

If they've "got to do something!", why are they using
the my tax money to do it.

--- "Brennan, Mike  (DOH)" <Mike.Brennan at DOH.WA.GOV>
wrote:

> I don't think that accomplishing anything
> constructive is the goal, at
> least at the DHS level.  I think they view radiation
> detection equipment
> as a great thing to focus attention on, as the
> chances of someone
> actually trying to bring rad mat into the country
> are low, and not
> catching anything can be used as proof that the mere
> existence of the
> systems have scared off the terrorists.  This gives
> them a "success" to
> point and the ability to say, "We can't do
> everything at once" when they
> are criticized for doing more or less nothing to
> stop the flow of people
> into this country through unregulated pathways that
> cause hundreds,
> possibly thousands of deaths each year, enrich
> criminal organizations,
> and make a mockery of all the other systems that try
> to regulate entry.
> 
> But then, the watch word is, "We've got to do
> something!", not "We've
> got to do something constructive."
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl
> [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] On
> Behalf Of Steven Dapra
> Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 6:58 PM
> To: Philip Egidi; radsafe at radlab.nl
> Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Article in todays
> Washington Post -
> RadiationDetectors for Border Are Delayed Again
> 
> Nov. 20
> 
>          I wonder what the likelihood is that these
> fancy-schmancy
> high-priced doo-dads will accomplish anything
> constructive.  I mean
> "constructive" in the sense of protecting the US of
> A from rogue nukes;
> not in the sense of dressing up someone's resume, or
> of feeding some
> federal employees' already bloated egos, or of
> making the manufacturers
> and the salesmen even richer than they already are. 
> (And don't forget
> those high-priced maintenance contracts that will go
> on forever and ever
> and ever and ever . . . . .)
> 
> Steven Dapra
> sjd at swcp.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> At 09:11 AM 11/20/07 -0700, Philip Egidi wrote:
> >fyi
> >
>
>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/19/AR20071
> >11901743_pf.html
> >
> >Radiation Detectors for Border Are Delayed Again
> >
> >By Robert O'Harrow Jr.
> >Washington Post Staff Writer
> >Tuesday, November 20, 2007; A01
> >
> >
> >
> >A $1.2 billion plan by the Department of Homeland
> Security to buy a new
> 
> >kind of radiation-detection machine for the
> nation's borders has been 
> >put on hold again, a blow to one of the Bush
> administration's top
> security goals.
> >
> >

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"If you guard your toothbrushes and diamonds with equal zeal, you'll probably lose fewer toothbrushes and more diamonds."
- Former national security advised McGeorge Bundy
-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
e-mail:  crispy_bird at yahoo.com


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