Now I don't know about you, but I really don't want to have to live in this kind of fear for the rest of my life. I don't want to have go to sleep, as I did the night of the Pentagon attack (a few miles away), wondering if overnight a biological or chemical agent was released insider the DC beltway.
Hawkmoon, unfortunately we can only protect ourselves in a relative way, not an absolute way. There may be periods of greater danger (there was a time in NYC when one crazy guy got the idea of throwing people in front of subway trains, and then for a while a bunch of crazy guys did that, and eventually that "pastime" passed) and lesser danger, but we have new capacities and a world in which 'nations' are not geographically bounded, but ideologically bonded. It is very interesting to me that these groups are called "cells" because cells make up an organism, a greater whole. We will do what we can, but as posts recently pointed out, our situation is very complex--as with Saudi Arabia (and what about the British banks and Saudi Arabia? Britain being our foremost ally).
NPR interview this a.m. was talking about face recognition software PLUS other forms of ID creating a multifaceted security blanket--something that must be multifacted and we would HAVE to keep changing or it would be broken fairly easily. It reminded me of the movie Gattaca--where DNA (drop of blood) and thumbprints were used for security, and the protagonist had to buy a fugitive's blood etc...to try and infiltrate
The fact is, we are in a new era of history |
