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Ari R"We've opened up a new front on the war on terror; a war on different. The problem is a combination of citizen informants and a CYA attitude among police that results in a knee-jerk escalation of reported threats."
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Rekha MurthyAn excellent, thorough article with tons of links to consolidate the myriad false terror alarms encouraged by govt officials.
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camryl9Ordinary citizens don't know what a real terrorist threat looks like...the whole system is biased towards escalation and CYA...If you ask amateurs to act as front-line security personnel, you shouldn't be surprised when you get amateur security.
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Watch how it happens. Someone sees something, so he says something. The person he says it to -- a policeman, a security guard, a flight attendant -- now faces a choice: ignore or escalate. Even though he may believe that it's a false alarm, it's not in his best interests to dismiss the threat. If he's wrong, it'll cost him his career. But if he escalates, he'll be praised for "doing his job" and the cost will be borne by others. So he escalates. And the person he escalates to also escalates, in a series of CYA decisions. And before we're done, innocent people have been arrested, airports have been evacuated, and hundreds of police hours have been wasted.
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brockmoellerEqually important, politicians need to stop praising and promoting the officers who get it wrong. And everyone needs to stop castigating, and prosecuting, the victims just because they embarrassed the police by their innocence.
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It's an attack on the unique, the unorthodox, the unexpected; it's a war on different. If you act different, you might find yourself investigated, questioned, and even arrested -- even if you did nothing wrong, and had no intention of doing anything wrong. The problem is a combination of citizen informants and a CYA attitude among police that results in a knee-jerk escalation of reported threats.
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For some reason, governments are encouraging this kind of behavior.
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a sane voice of reason at some level should have prevailed.
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And before we're done, innocent people have been arrested, airports have been evacuated, and hundreds of police hours have been wasted.
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This isn't the way counterterrorism is supposed to work, but it's happening everywhere. It's a result of our relentless campaign to convince ordinary citizens that they're the front line of terrorism defense.
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All they know is that something makes them uneasy, usually based on fear, media hype, or just something being different.
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the whole system is biased towards escalation and CYA instead of a more realistic threat assessment.
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infora dimeWe've opened up a new front on the war on terror. It's an
attack on the unique, the unorthodox, the unexpected; it's a war on
different. If you act different, you might find yourself investigated,
questioned, and even arrested -- even if you did not -
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linkmessis creativity under threat in the current envirionment? Well, yes.
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Owen BlackerBruce Schneier on why the current phase of The War Against Terror is not only ineffective, but fucking stupid an a problem to all of our liberties.
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