archiveTerrorism

It’s hard to believe that it has already been seven years since that terrible morning in 2001. I’ve blogged about how I spent that day in an edit bay, editing footage from the scene that was feeding in from Washington, New York and Pennsylvania.  I’ve talked about watching interview after...

A recent editorial in the Post & Courier asked if Americans are tired of revisiting the tragedy of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. In the article, a Massachusetts woman says this: “I may sound callous, but doesn’t grieving have a shelf-life? We’re very sorry and mournful that people...

Or more specifically, the communication between states and municipalities. And given America’s obsession with “homeland security” it’s a problem that makes me wonder what’s going on. I relocated back to my home state of South Carolina last fall. A few weeks back, I received a delinquent property tax bill for...

Someone has taken the time to determine that when it comes to terrorism, you probably don't have much to worry about. According to the chart, which looks suspiciously like the terror alert legend, you have a much better chance of dying of a heart attack, falling, being in a car...

A stranger cuts barbed wire to enter the water supply facility for a small American town. Once inside, he cuts the lines that would activate an alarm, damages an electrical panel and a vent at the top of a 1.3-million gallon water tank. And apparently, he empties the contents of...

An interesting news report today suggests that the recommendations issued by the 9/11 Commission to increase the nation's security to prevent another terrorist attack aren't that much different from the suggestions made in 1990 by the Flight 103 Commission, which investigated the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie,...

It's interesting to see the patterns of thought across Journal-land when you compare the writing of different people. One of the patterns I notice constantly is the one about the terror alert system. Apparently, here is the prevailing thought process going on: If the government issues a terror threat and...