2 Charged With Plotting to Bomb Train Station By ALAN FEUER and WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM Two New York City men were charged with conspiring to set off a bomb in the subway station at Herald Square.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/29/nyregion/29bomb.html?th
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One reads that Bush is consumed with the details of winning reelection. He certainly is not focused on such basics as protecting us here in NYC from another terrorist attack. The report above is the second instance (one prior to 9/11) in which several individuals were turned in for plotting attacks on our terribly vulnerable subway system. Since that time there has been no effective attempt to protect it. How many more little cells -- perhaps better put together -- are on the ready?
Subway clerk booths have been closed down as an economy measure by our independent MTA (Metropolitan Transportation Authority) leaving hundreds of subway entrances totally unguarded -- particularly in those stations with less traffic and/or alternative entrances. I will be entering one on my return from classes Tuesday through which anyone could carry whatever unobserved to board either of the two major East and West side IRT expresses that terminate there.
We are told that our police are being pulled from the outer boroughs to guard Madison Square Garden, leaving us further unprotected precisely where we have learned (from the recent Madrid example) that terrible damage can be done.
We should have had our police strategically stationed to protect the above while our national guard was put to work protecting the Republican Convention -- or vice versa. But we have no homeland defense. The Bush administration is too busy running for re-election to worry about such mundane matters affecting the blue states.
We ought to be urging all to stay home during this extremely perilous 4 days. I wish that our damned media would act as the fourth estate rather than embedded beneficiaries of this disastrous administration. Perhaps we should be organizing a general strike or something to focus attention on our vulnerability. Many tell me they avoid our subways whenever they can, but too many are captive to them -- as are our overextended troops now isolated as random targets in Iraq and Afghanistan. -- "A war is just if there is no alternative, and the resort to arms is legitimate if they represent your last hope." (Livy) -- Ed Kent 718-951-5324 (voice mail only) [blind copies] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CollegeConversation http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PeaceEfforts http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EndingPoverty http://groups.yahoo.com/group/440neighborhood http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StudentConcerns
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