But forget about nuclear plants. Too hardened to be good targets. What if a terror attack crippled the shipping lines at Long Beach, New York or Baltimore? It would do tremendous damage to the economy. When the unions were striking in Long Beach it was estimate to cost $1 billion a day. What if the port was unusable for six months or more?
For that reason, when I see stuff like this I chalk it up to the war on terror. However, I do think one of the great challenges of our lifetimes after we win the war on terror will be to dismantle the security apparatus we are in the process of creating.
Do I sounds overly optimistic? Maybe, but lots of folks thought we would never defeat global communism, either.
>"In May 2002, the Professional Association of Diving Instructors voluntarily
>provided the FBI with a disk containing the names, addresses and other personal
>information of about 2 million people, nearly every U.S. citizen who had learned
>to scuba dive in the previous three years. That's just one of the myriad ways
>federal law enforcement agencies are quietly recruiting private industry and
>private citizens as de facto agents in the war on terror, according to a report
>recently issued by the ACLU called The Surveillance-Industrial Complex. The
>study paints a picture of an unofficial government policy to enlist companies
>and citizens in the building of massive databases aimed at monitoring people in
>the United States.
>
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>
>Well-meaning firms may think they are helping fight terrorism, but the ACLU is
>warning that this needle-in-a-data-haystack approach puts civil liberties in
>great peril with very little anti-terrorism payoff. "
>
>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5737239/
>
>-Gel
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