I offer further evidence that words have lost their meanings. Yesterday, on July 4th, 2002, I was reading up on wireless Internet technology. I came across the definition of FHSS (Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum), a method of radio transmission. There I learned that the frequency of the transmission changes in a “… random but predictable […]
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The Policy Failure Behind 9/11
That the attacks of 9/11 were able to be successfully executed are being blamed on government’s failure — failure to interpret intelligence, failure of inter-agency cooperation, failure to keep known terrorists off the planes and more. But 9/11 was not so much a failure of intelligence as it was a failure of federal policy. 9/11 was just […]
Sitting Ducks Are Easy Targets
Easy Targets The extraordinary events of September 11, 2001 require a serious look at the policies that made these horrific events possible. It is now obvious that we should stop treating hijackings as hostage situations and start treating them like terrorist attacks. We can all see clearly now that airliners are weapons, not merely conveyances. […]
September 11, 2001
When I heard on the news this morning that a plane had flown into the World Trade Center, I saw in my mind’s eye a small, private aircraft whose pilot had suffered a heart attack or maybe fallen asleep. When I heard that a second aircraft had hit the towers, I said to my wife, […]