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August 24, 2015

"I just looked over at Spencer and said, 'Let's go!'"

The expensive global security establishment failed to stop 9/11, and — despite having the French-train gunman flagged as a possible jihadist— did nothing to stop this weekend's attack. And that’s a lesson.
Bureaucracies have their place, but they don’t deal well with diffuse threats such as terrorism. By the time “first responders” get there, it’s usually too late. But there’s one group of “responders” who don’t have to go anywhere, and that’s the group already on the scene. In conventional analysis, and in the terrorists’ hopes, those people are called “victims.” But as the three Americans on that French train demonstrated, victimhood isn’t the only response. - - Glenn Reynolds: See something? DO something!

Posted by gerardvanderleun at August 24, 2015 7:26 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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Excellent. "Courage is contagious."

Posted by: Leslie [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 24, 2015 8:04 AM

"Bureaucracies have their place...."
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The place for irresponsible and unaccountable bureaucracies is hell with a bullet through every head.

Posted by: ghostsniper [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 24, 2015 12:56 PM

The real conflicts are not in the headlines or Federal meeting rooms or snicker, the UN.

The real conflicts are out in the streets and will be fought with boots and steel.

You and I, we will be either winners or losers. I know which one I will be, how about you?

Posted by: chasmatic [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 27, 2015 12:59 AM

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