Read this piece of paranoia this evening, about how the US government is under-staffed, under-funded and under-trained to fight bioterror and/or chemical terrorist attacks (which are for some reason never referred to as "chemoterror" attacks ... not sure why not ... if nothing else "Chemoterror" would make a bitchin' name for a band.)
Ahem.
Who gives a rusty fvck?
First off, the US government is grossly over-staffed and over-funded; just not for these particular imaginary ills.
The likelihood of a major biological terror attack on the US is about as serious as that of someone using planes to knock down the World Trade Center.
Wait, what?
Face it: the fact that the WTC attacks were actually pulled off did not make them any less astronomically unlikely to occur, people. Shit sometimes goes against our expectations. Tampa won the SuperBowl. I get laid periodically.
Given the perhaps 0.0001% chance of a serious biological terror attack occuring in the US anytime in the forseeable future, versus the 99.9999% chance that more money, more manpower and more funds to the "War on Terror" will simply lead to greater and more varied incompetence, bureacratic bullshit, and violation of fundamental rights of all Americans while doing nothing to actually dissuade such an attack, I think that I will just buy some Cipro and a gas mask and take my chances.
Phaedrus
Ahem.
Who gives a rusty fvck?
First off, the US government is grossly over-staffed and over-funded; just not for these particular imaginary ills.
The likelihood of a major biological terror attack on the US is about as serious as that of someone using planes to knock down the World Trade Center.
Wait, what?
Face it: the fact that the WTC attacks were actually pulled off did not make them any less astronomically unlikely to occur, people. Shit sometimes goes against our expectations. Tampa won the SuperBowl. I get laid periodically.
Given the perhaps 0.0001% chance of a serious biological terror attack occuring in the US anytime in the forseeable future, versus the 99.9999% chance that more money, more manpower and more funds to the "War on Terror" will simply lead to greater and more varied incompetence, bureacratic bullshit, and violation of fundamental rights of all Americans while doing nothing to actually dissuade such an attack, I think that I will just buy some Cipro and a gas mask and take my chances.
Phaedrus
