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ORIGINAL: FLFunTop

A little off topic but 102 haitians just dropped on shore in broad daylight.  Wooden sail boat so no radar return and no motor so no detection by sonor bouy.  Securing the US from an intruder with harmful intent is virtually impossible

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ORIGINAL: TheHeretic

    And then got himself arrested for speeding, in a car with no license plates and with a gun on the seat.  Seems a bit amateurish, especially to people who know how tricky it can be to get a good detonation from ANFO.

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ORIGINAL: LadyEllen

It always amazes me how in the UK, with such heightened levels of danger from terrorists, we have troops outside all kinds of places, but no protection whatever for the likes of the Elan Valley in Wales - a former river valley that was dammed to form reservoirs to supply water to the Birmingham conurbation - 2nd largest in UK after London. There are metal doors which lead into staircases within the dam walls, but secured with padlocks that would be a minute's work. A lone guy goes round the dams every week to check whatever is at the bottom of these staircases - he took me and a friend down to have a look. Otherwise, aside from tourists there's no one around. No need to blow the dams from the inside, just leave the impression that the water supply for three million people has been tampered with and the disruption would be immense.

The water pipes from these dams run about 80 miles underground from the dams to the city and pass about 3 miles north of me where at one point they're exposed in the forest (which is free to public access). It would be dreadfully simple to rupture the pipes at that point with the right explosive; shutting off the water to the Birmingham area and flooding the area I live for a double whammy. Same principle applies to many reservoirs just outside towns across the country - all unguarded, easy to access and helpfully marked on maps.

Then there's the electricity grid - pylons, substations et al, all easily accessed and damaged very easily. Gas is a little more tricky, but not that much more. And phones.

And the best one of all on our crowded roads here, if one wished to bring total disruption to the country. You fill a dozen 13.6m semi trailers with your explosive of choice, and you drive each of them to one of the crucial motorway intersections, where you blow them to pieces. Within half an hour there will be 5 mile tailbacks, within an hour there will be 20 mile tailbacks, within two hours the country will have ground to a halt. Do that at the same time you hit the water, electric, gas and phone supplies in the same locations and you will have absolute mayhem. And not a police officer or soldier in sight to prevent you.

Happy thoughts

E

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ORIGINAL: ferryman777

Our own government doing the unthinkable ???? What have you been smoking ?

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ORIGINAL: MyMasterStephen


*Makes notes in his "to do" list...*

But I agree wholeheartedly.  It's the way things are.  The price of what freedom we have left to us is vulnerability.

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It's not like the Dems in Congress are going to make sure the administration is besieged with constant investigations and attacks that will distract them from the actual business of national security.

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ORIGINAL: FLFunTop

A little off topic but 102 haitians just dropped on shore in broad daylight.  Wooden sail boat so no radar return and no motor so no detection by sonor bouy.  Securing the US from an intruder with harmful intent is virtually impossible