Monday, January 15, 2018

When Civil Defense is Not

As some of you know, I never was a big fan of Homeland Security, especially after hurricane Rita and Katrina, so having them involved - even under new leadership - makes us wonder if missile warnings are a disaster waiting to happen.  No longer waiting after the government in Hawaii has managed to scare the begeezes out of everyone by announcing what we used to call “incoming”, a missile on the way.

Missile alerts are uniquely military in nature.  The intelligence services help to detect them, but the military alerts.  The civil defense people pick that up after it is formally issued.  But, as we saw last week, the brilliant folks in Hawaii who are so much smarter than the rest of us decided to put warnings in their own hands to get them out faster.  What we didn’t know was that faster means “ without confirmation “.  How stupid is that?

Missile defense is a military duty.  Set things up to get warnings from people who have satellites and radar that can track and identify missiles.  Then, follow their lead.  Good Lord people, have you no sense?

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