feel safer? more secure?
my friends have heard me say it often. i've thought that if there are really serious threats with which to concern ourselves, they'll have to do with trains and homicide bombings. anybody armed in any possible way can board any amtrak or commuter train at union station, dc or any other station in the country and do whatever he wishes. luggage isn't scanned nor passengers screened in any way. we certainly like it this way for travel is convenient and rather hassle-free. but i feel the threat of attack increases every day, just as the horrid massacre in madrid shows today.the ignorant and unconscionable sheep in the US who wish to vote for dubya because they feel he'll keep them safe from terrorist attacks when the contrary is actually true best take notice. it could happen here any day and bush's foreign and trade policies are doing nothing to deal with the reasons that fuel the terror and the desire of the perpetrators to inflict it upon us.
upi's roland flamini offers interesting analysis of today's horror.
the current news: madrid train blasts kill over 180 and injures over 900.
note that eta's political wing has rejected the organisation's involvement and that a letter in which al-qaeda claims responsibility for the attack has been received in london and a van has been found in a madrid suburb containing incriminating material. three days of mourning have been declared by the spanish government.
