Defending America -- By Exposing Its Vulnerabilities to Its Enemies

In his October 2008 Soldier of Fortune column, neocon idol Ollie “Arms for Hostages” North (remember the ‘80s, when the U.S. did negotiate with terrorists?) does his part to protect our once-great nation -- by telling potential “evildoers” how best to attack Washington DC’s Union Station.

 

(Isn’t that a violation of the patriot act or something? Now let me get this straight: If I reprint a hundred-year-old article on homemade pyrotechnics, I’m committing treason and enabling the enemy. Ollie, though, can provide Al Qaeda with an actual game plan, and everything’s kosher? Is that how it works? Just curious…)

 

Read on. Ye’ jes’ can’t make this shit up…

 

“Unlike other public buildings in Washington, including our nearby Fox News bureau, there are no barriers to prevent a vehicle from turning off the street and into the front entrance of Union Station. Worse, the nearest vehicle lane – a taxicab rank – is less than seven feet from the face of the structure. In short, there is no offset protection whatsoever. You don’t have to be paranoid to envision a VBIED bringing down the 96-foot ceilings and turning the busy lobby into a charnel house.” 

 

-- “Beirut Comes to Washington,” Soldier of Fortune, October 2008, p. 82, paragraph 8.

 

North, of course, subsequently covers his ass by saying, “Had Amtrak officials not promised to take ‘immediate, interim measures to prevent VBIED attacks,’ I would not have acknowledged this vulnerability publicly.” (Paragraph 12)

 

That’s nice, Ollie. Here’s your lollipop. I feel ever so much fucking safer now, especially when I take Amtrak’s “track record”  -- no pun intended, of course -- for security (I’ve visited a few Amtrak stations. In every case, the clientele immediately brought post-Katrina New Orleans to mind…) and customer satisfaction (“Then take Greyhound, mothafucka!”) into account.

 

Since North’s done his patriotic duty and protected his country from the ravening Mussalman hordes by telling them how and where to strike, I’ll do my part as well.

 

In theory, Al Qaeda could partially paralyze the economic infrastructure of metro Atlanta -- “the New York of the South” – by purchasing copies of the local high society rag, Jezebel, and either greasing the “movers and shakers” oft found mugging within its pages or bombing the locales they frequent.

 

This sinister mission could easily be accomplished by savvy operatives infiltrating Atlanta’s vast (but dewy-eyed and innocent – we all know that illegal aliens disregard our nation’s sovereignty and borders out of sheer love for the almighty US of A and bear us no ill will...) undocumented third-world immigrant community; taking minimum wage, cash-under-the-table jobs and “running with it,” as it were.

 

Such critical vulnerabilities cry out for immediate attention!

 

Before Mayor Franklin applies even another molecule of peroxide to her “do,” she should demand that the feds cough up the cash and manpower to transform each of Atlanta’s vulnerable streets into carbon copies of Pennsylvania Avenue, as described by Ollie: “…a maze of bollards, vehicle barriers, high fences, and heavy gates. Without the appropriate pass, it is impossible to get a vehicle near the White House or any other federal building.”   

 

There. Now I’m a “great American,” too.

 

No need to thank me. Just lookin’ out for ya…

Comments

[J.R.]

Now, you know that ATL is going to start implementing their 'secure skreets' program only after they make the Union Mission and Underground Atlanta a mo' safe place for da peeps!

[Dave]

Exactly.

Now would you please explain to my wife why "rolling" our plane tickets was a bad idea?

This has little or nothing to do with "terrorism" per se, but arguing with anything with a pair of ovaries is a fool's errand, no?

Being every inch the tolerant and charitable bastard, I let Mags "roll" our tickets when we found that Airtran had overbooked our flight -- for all that I did a bit of pissin' an' moanin' for honor's sake.

My protests notwithstanding, she saw nothing wrong with killing a few hours in Denver in exchange for a free flight elsewhere. Doing so, however, necessitated touching down at Hartsfield at 23:00 EST and taking MARTA to North Springs Station.

By the time the denizens of the "skreet" had set up camp on the train, she'd changed her "let's-save-a-few-bucks" tune.

"Ye need not stop work to tell us...."