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Considering Fear: Today's Terror Alerts
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Why do I have the sneaking suspicion that if terrorists are at work in Los Angeles, their next big strike won't look anything like these?
- The El Monte Metrolink station was shut down while the bomb squad sent a robot in to poke at suspicious packages.
- The Long Beach Airport terminal was evacuated for 90 minutes after some joker in baggy clothes had the temerity to run away from the TSA as they tried to search him.
- And you were all worried about the United Arab Emirates taking over the Port of Los Angeles? Fully one third of the shipping companies there are already foreign-owned ...
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At the Port of Los Angeles, three of the 36 shipping firms are partially or solely owned by U.S. companies. Thirteen of 14 container terminal operators at the Los Angeles-Long Beach port complex are foreign-owned, including companies from China, Japan, Singapore and Denmark. However, Gov. Schwarzenegger points out who's really in charge: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-CA) was also on "Meet." He was asked about the port issue: "California is not affected by that, which is good." NBC's Russert asked him: "13 or 14 container terminal operators at the Los Angeles Long Beach Port are foreign-owned: China, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore and Denmark, as you said. Are you concerned that China operates a port? In terms of security?" Schwarzenegger replied: "Well, we have the ultimate control over security. I mean, they occupy space. They lease space. They don't own it." In truth, the port is as much a gaping welcome sign for terrorism as anything landing at LAX, but then so is the Red Line, the California Aqueduct or any number of other delivery routes for fear and trouble.
In short, it's probably not worth most of us worrying about it at the bootsoles-and-eyeballs level. We can only hope the FBI, the LAPD, the LASO, the TSA, the CHP and the rest of our protective alphabet-soup agencies keep vigilant, and that the federal government stops giving terrorists a reason to attack us.
Or is this too ostritchy a point of view?
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| Posted by: Mack_Reed on Monday, February 27, 2006 - 10:30 AM
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