Wondering about the intentions and seriousness of the fool in the White House and the incompetent head of DHS? I think these two headlines say it all.
Al-Qaida leader would use nukes vs. U.S.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 22 (UPI) — Mustafa Abul-Yazeed, al-Qaida’s leader in Afghanistan, says the group would use Pakistan’s nuclear weapons against the United States if it possessed them.
White House to Abandon Spy-Satellite Program
…The program would have provided federal, state and local officials with extensive access to spy-satellite imagery — but no eavesdropping capabilities— to assist with emergency response and other domestic-security needs, such as identifying where ports or border areas are vulnerable to terrorism.
White House to Abandon Spy-Satellite Program
As someone who worked for nearly 15 years developing mapping capabilities based on LIDAR and modern orthoimagery, and then developed and presented a white sheet to the NYC DEP on how to implement a real-time system of protection for their watersheds, I can tell you that melding satellite imagery with ground-based GPS control and data grids should have been the way forward.
I have been exposed to a lot of stuff… camera lenses that can read a license plate 2 miles away, and orthophotos that can see a man in the front seat of a car. I’m sure this stuff is even better now. And Obama want’s to abandon this?
What are THEY hiding?
Relative to Al Qaeda saying they would use nuclear weapons against the US, none of us should be surprised.
What is really troubling are the fact that a number of suitcase nukes disappeared at the breakup of the USSR, and have not surfaced. Just the fact that this technology, OLD TECHOLOGY NOW, would render us powerless in short order.
All the more reason to have spy satellite and other surveillance methods well placed and technologically superior to anyone else.
C’Man, you make a simple and prudent argument. Which, of course, can’t risk being interpreted into the vernacular of Potomac Swamp Dwellers (of either party).
Monitoring can be effective and non-obstrusive, and does nothing untoward to a law-abiding population. Using devices for general observation of an area imposes no infringement of ‘rights’. It’s passive, and only ‘observes and reports’; and is, as you have attested, efficient.
But, let’s not fool ourselves. Obama knows, and has (albeit an evident minority) advisors to tell him of the vulnerablities we face.
Of course, Al Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas, Al Fuqra (sic), and any number of the septs of the Muslim Bortherhood wouldn’t hesitate to flick the switch of a nuke, drop contamination agents in reservoirs, electro-magnetic-pulse a power system (as the Russians did to Georgia); for the sake of a mass-mayhem funeral and to be in the presence of Allah.
And the Messiah of Cairo will be satisfied that he was “present” and a principal in world events at the time. That’s all he wants. You and I? Eh!
Google Earth, hip and cool, protecting U.S. citizens, evil.