the news from bush's speech

Tim May tcmay at got.net
Tue Jan 28 19:25:19 PST 2003


On Tuesday, January 28, 2003, at 06:00  PM, Declan McCullagh wrote:

>>  And tonight, I am instructing the leaders of the FBI, Central 
>> Intelligence, Homeland Security, and the Department of Defense to 
>> develop a Terrorist Threat Integration Center, to merge and analyze 
>> all threat information in a single location. Our government must have 
>> the very best information possible, and we will use it to make sure 
>> the right people are in the right places to protect our citizens.
>
>

The _real_ news was, of course, that no one delivered the Sato Solution 
to that den of statists.

Granted, delivering a fully-loaded 767 through the roof of the Capitol 
dome has become harder than it was when Clancy first proposed it 
(ironically, Clancy remained a vaunted consultant while those on 
newsgroups who speculated similarly reportedly got visits from the SS). 
But each year I keep hoping that my CNN coverage will suddenly go blank 
and Aaron Brown and Judy Woodruff will say "We seem to have lost 
communcation with the Capitol...Judy, what's that bright orange glow 
over towards the Capitol?"

Of course, a true nest-cleaning detonation would probably take out most 
of Crystal City as well, so Aaron, Lou, Dan, Peter, and Oprah would 
probably be "having the vapors."

There's always next year...



--Tim May
"To those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, 
my message is this: Your tactics only aid terrorists."  --John 
Ashcroft, U.S. Attorney General





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