Re: Dept. of Homeland Security S&T Programs

["Syd Levine \(AnaLog\)" <AnaLog@logwell.com>]

I hate to be a pessimist, but I doubt there is much that can really be done

short of suspending all of the rights we take for granted.  It is simply too

easy for bad guys to do bad things in this country if they are determined to

do so.  The fact that nothing significant has happened since 9-11 has little

to do with those best efforts, I suspect.



----- Original Message ----- 

From: "Jaro" <jaro-10kbq@sympatico.ca>

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Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 11:13 AM

Subject: RE: Dept. of Homeland Security S&T Programs





> While the nation's best scientists (or spies) cannot stop such activity, I

> think their efforts are directed at mitigating the consequences.

>

> At the low-tech end of technical mitigation measures are things like

> reinforced airliner crew cabin doors -- which would definitely have

stopped

> "people with box cutters."

>

> At the high-tech end are electronic devices and software, linked to GPS,

> which prevent airliners flying over or in the vicinity of cities from

> descending below a certain altitude (except at airports), taking over

> control of them in the event of such an attempt, and steering them

somewhere

> safe -- say over the ocean or farmland. This too would definitely have

> stopped "people with box cutters" from flying into the WTC.

>

> As concerns the smuggling of WMDs into the US and dealing with &

mitigating

> the consequences of any successful attacks, I think the requirement for

the

> mobilization of the nation's best scientists is self-evident.

> Don't you ?

>

>  Jaro

> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>

>

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>

> The nations best scientists cannot stop such activity, nor apparently can

> the nation's top spies.

> ----- Original Message -----

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>

> In a message dated 10/1/2003 1:46:54 PM Pacific Standard Time,

> crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM writes:

> Protecting America will require the mobilization of

> the nation's best scientists, McQueary said.

> Pardon my insouciance, but this was all motivated by an attack by 19

people

> with box cutters.  I'm not convinced that the "nation's best scientists"

> could have stopped this.

>

> Barbara

>

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