Feeling safer yet?
Jan 2nd, 2007 at 8:02 pm by Dr. S
It’s interesting to see which cities scored well, and not surprising that D.C. is among them. After all, protecting their own asses is one thing all politicians can agree on.
Only six of 75 U.S. metropolitan areas won the highest grades for their emergency agencies’ ability to communicate during a disaster, five years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, according to a federal report obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press.
A draft portion of the report, to be released Wednesday, gives the best ratings to Washington, D.C; San Diego; Minneapolis-St. Paul; Columbus, Ohio; Sioux Falls, S.D.; and Laramie County, Wyo.
Talk about your target-rich cities. This sure is bad news for terrorists, who now might have to turn their attention to relatively unprotected backwaters such as New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Atlanta, Chicago, Miami, Seattle or Denver.
Well, actually, San Diego is quite the target rich city, with the bulk of the Third Fleet based here, the Marine’s 1st Division headquartered here, F/A-18 Hornets based at Miramar, Navy Seals command in Coronado, a nuclear power plant at San Onofre (I believe The West Wing had a story about that), major militarycommunications facilities, major M-I-C corporations HQ’d here like SAIC, Titan-home to many Abu Ghraib torturers, Cubic, General Dynamics, not to mention the San Ysidro border crossing, and more.
Not to mention the 3-4 million people living here, we are quite the target. As is DC, of course, but obviously not so much the rest of the list.
But I’ve never felt particularly unsafe anyway, having never bought into the big terrorism threat in the first place. I think OBL and the rest of the terrorists are much more concerned with events in their own backyard, they made their point and got things rolling, and that idiot son of a corporate lackey fell right for it, h,l,s.
Wyoming . . . Cheney.
I wonder if there’s any connection.