Analysis!
I've been thinking about the whole DHS funding thing and I have a theory (other than 'the Administration sucks' etc. etc..).
The criticism that they had about the NY anti-terrorism plans was that they are stopgap measures and there is nothing sustainable. DHS wants to fund more one-time infrastructure and training type expenses, like communications equipment, preparedness drills and whatnot. The main criticism of the NYPD and our plans were that the marquee programs like Operation Atlas (wherein heavily armed cops show up randomly at likely targets and look tough) were more ongoing and therefore inefficient and unsustainable. DHS would like to move us in the direction of long-term planning.
You can see where they're coming from on this. You can see the logic behind it, and you can almost see the think-tank and policy group papers behind that. It makes perfect sense - in order to be successful in the long run, we have to change our behaviors, we have to retrain and re-structure ourselves and the way we think about disaster preparedness.
But they're a bunch of fucking assholes - don't forget. Those theories only work for the locales that have the luxury of time. The cities that actually can "prepare." We can't prepare anymore - shit done already happened to us. What we are doing is trying every day to stop shit from happening again. Not the things that may happen in the future. The things that might happen today. That is what it means to be a target.
Now don't get me wrong - I don't buy into the whole "Ooh! The Terrorists are always out to get us! Be Scared!" thing. But I can't deny that it's happened twice already. And those fuckers in Washington are making sure more and more people want to do it every day. So those assclowns need to understand that we are in a totally different category. They can take their little plans and drills and fancy equipment bought with the money Wall Street makes, but we have needs today and every day.
I think America needs to recognize that on 9/11 we took the damn bullet for them and we are still out here, throwing ourselves in the line of fire and they better have our backs.
The criticism that they had about the NY anti-terrorism plans was that they are stopgap measures and there is nothing sustainable. DHS wants to fund more one-time infrastructure and training type expenses, like communications equipment, preparedness drills and whatnot. The main criticism of the NYPD and our plans were that the marquee programs like Operation Atlas (wherein heavily armed cops show up randomly at likely targets and look tough) were more ongoing and therefore inefficient and unsustainable. DHS would like to move us in the direction of long-term planning.
You can see where they're coming from on this. You can see the logic behind it, and you can almost see the think-tank and policy group papers behind that. It makes perfect sense - in order to be successful in the long run, we have to change our behaviors, we have to retrain and re-structure ourselves and the way we think about disaster preparedness.
But they're a bunch of fucking assholes - don't forget. Those theories only work for the locales that have the luxury of time. The cities that actually can "prepare." We can't prepare anymore - shit done already happened to us. What we are doing is trying every day to stop shit from happening again. Not the things that may happen in the future. The things that might happen today. That is what it means to be a target.
Now don't get me wrong - I don't buy into the whole "Ooh! The Terrorists are always out to get us! Be Scared!" thing. But I can't deny that it's happened twice already. And those fuckers in Washington are making sure more and more people want to do it every day. So those assclowns need to understand that we are in a totally different category. They can take their little plans and drills and fancy equipment bought with the money Wall Street makes, but we have needs today and every day.
I think America needs to recognize that on 9/11 we took the damn bullet for them and we are still out here, throwing ourselves in the line of fire and they better have our backs.
posted by chiniqua at 2:01 AM
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