.comment: A Different View of Security
It's been a week and a day since the world changed -- and believe me, the world did
change, all of it -- and it's ever more evident that the rage is not going to go away.
Possibly on either side. Definitely not around here. I was in broadcasting in New York City
for a number of years, and a lot of the broadcast transmitters and network uplinks were on
top of the World Trade Center. There were engineers there, and in broadcasting, one tends
to know a lot of the engineers. They didn't have a chance, nor did anyone located above
the points where the stolen airliners full of people hit. Officially listed as "missing," they
were either incinerated, or crushed, or were among those who jumped, perhaps surprised
at first that there didn't seem to be a ground rush; that came a few seconds later. My
country has been raped, and like other rape victims we will recover, but we'll never be the
same; still, we'll feel a lot better when certain parts are lopped off the offenders -- in this
case, their heads. (If you disagree with me on this, tough.)
