| August 17, 2007 |
| Personal Contingency Plans: More than an Ounce of Prevention |
| U.S. counterterrorism sources remain concerned that an attack against the U.S. homeland will occur within the next two to three weeks. This is not surprising, considering that the drums have been beating loudly in Washington this summer about a potential attack-first from Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and then in the form of a National Intelligence Estimate. More recently, several other reports have appeared concerning an impending attack, including an alert over the weekend in New York triggered by an alleged dirty bomb plot. |
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
READY OR NOT?
Friday, August 10, 2007
IS ANYBODY READY FOR THE WORST?
ARE YOU READY FOR THE WORST? It is winter, a heavy snow has fallen, the temperatures have plunged to below zero.
There is no heat, no power, no natural gas, no fuel, no water , no sewage disposal, no garbage pick up, because the power lines, natural gas lines, water system and sewer plant have been blown up.
A dirty bomb, hidden in a container at the Port of Albany goes off. The fuel oil terminal and gas tanks are destroyed.
You can't get out of town because the roads are not plowed. The city begins to burn, because arson fires are set. There is no water to fight fires. The firehouses have been attacked and destroyed.
Most city police and firefighters who live outside the city can't report for duty. Besides, their first obligation is the survival of their own families, in such a situation.
The food stores are empty. Civil disorder breaks out with criminals, gangs and mobs running through neighborhoods pillaging and plundering. Most homeowner can't defend themselves or protect their loved ones and property because the Common Council implemented the recommendations of the City Gun Task Force. which opted to disarm law abiding citizens of their Second Amendment right to bear arms and protect themselves.
People, who have not prepared to survive, flee their homes. They run to their neighborhood churches, synagogues, schools seeking shelter, warmth, light, water and food, but these neighborhood institutions and facilities can offer nothing because they have failed to prepare.
No need to go on, you get the picture. Utter chaos, civil disorder, devestation, destruction, hardship and death. You can anticipate and propose many other scenarios. Just use your imagination.
You can be sure that the foreign terrorists and their allies; anti-social,native born malcontents, illegal aliens, gangbangers, criminals, etc., are planning to strike, simultaneously, in ways that we are not anticipating. They are getting ready, but we are not!
Time is short, plan for your own survival and that of your family and loved ones. Encourage your neighborhood churches, synagogues, schools, pharmacies, health care providers, senior housing, etc. to do the same...without delay.
How and where to begin? Scroll through archives in this blog and our Neighborhood Association blog: http://bpcnanews.blogspot.com/ Go to the websites and sources contained therein.
Immediately contact James Greene, Disaster Preparation Coordinator for the American Red Cross: Greene@redcrossneny.org tel 458 8111 ext 3011, for information, literature.
Have Jim come to your church, synagogue, school to put on a program and share information/literature on what to do to prepare.
Delay not a day longer. Pass this information onto family and friends.
We are nearing the anniversary of the first 9-11 attack. We know our foe acts on symbolism. Our troops have the foe on the run in Iraq and Afghanistan. Osama, and crew, will not be safe much longer in their NW Pakistan mountain frontier hideouts. The end is near and they know it. They are getting desperate.
Who will strike first? We have the advantage, unless we suffer devestating, simultaneous strikes on the homeland, which will leave our troops, overseas at the mercy of the foe. because our homeland will be in chaos and ruin.
As General Tommy Franks (US Army ret) often says, his worst nightmare is that the U S will be plunged into martial law after such an attack on the homeland.
It goes without saying, the 2008 election, troopergate and all the rest of politics as usual, won't matter. Hillary or Obama, or Nancy Pelosi,or Harry Reid, or Chuckie, Eliot, Senator Joe, or Jerry won't be able to save you. Government at all levels is not prepared either.
Bottom line is that you and your loved ones have to save yourselves. No one else is prepared to.
So, as the rugged Navy Bosun's used to say: "Turn to! Let's see A........, and elbows!"
This is the last you will hear me urge you to get ready. I will be busy following my own advice.
Charles Darwin once postulated the theory "survival of the fittest".
That is precisely what will rule in the scenario outlined above.
No calls please, You are own your own!
J P Sullivan
WE CAN RUN BUT - WE CAN NOT HIDE
WE CAN RUN, BUT CANNOT HIDE. AIR POLLUTION IS A MAJOR HEALTH ISSUE IN THE CAPITAL DISTRICT AND MANY PLACES IN THE NATION. READ: http://news.aol.com/story/_a/farm-town-has-nations-dirtiest-air/20070810070509990002?ncid=NWS00010000000001
TAKE STEPS TO END THE WHITE DEATH. LOCALLY, NOW. (see blog archives on White Death, or excessive use of Road Salt)
J P Sullivan
Monday, August 6, 2007
ASSIGNMENT FOR WOULD BE COMMANDER IN CHIEFS
ASSIGNMENT FOR WOULD BE COMMANDER IN CHIEFS:
PUT BOOTS ON THE GROUND IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN.
YOUR BOOTS!
Those who aspire to leadership positions of President, Vice President, Senate Majority Leader and Speaker of the House have to recognize the realities of the world today:
1.The Jihadist have declared war on the Western world: North America, Western Europe, Australia and New Zealand. They have already attacked and are deploying to these regions via immigration, both legal and illegal.
2. The Jihadists are recuiting allies and foot soldiers from the many, assorted anti-social malcontents who are native to these regions, as well as the illegal aliens who are moving into these regions.
3.The 2008 Presidential and Congressional elections are the most crucial since the founding days of America. Our future as individuals and as a nation will be in their hands. Politics as usual will seal our fate.
4. The most important function of the next President will be to act as Commander in Chief. It follows that those who aspire to the above positions must be ready to assume this role at a moments notice.
5. I propose that those who are the current House and Senate Leaders: Pelosi and Reid, and all who aspire, or may be possibly nominated as candidates for the Presidency and Vice Presidency, as well as potential new House and Senate Leaders in the next Congress, spend ten days in Baghdad, and ten days in Afghanistan, at Forward Operating Bases , on patrols with our fine military during the remainder of the hot summer. No photo ops for the media. Then let these current and aspiring officeholder/leaders come home and explain to the American people what a Commander and Chief must do, what Congress must do, and what the American people must do, to prevail against the Jihadists over there and here at home.
6. This is the defining issue in deciding who should be elected President and Vice President in 2008 and Leaders of the Senate and House in January 2009.
FALL IN AND MOVE OUT. J P Sullivan
Friday, June 22, 2007
HOW TO WIN WAR ON TERROR
SOME THOUGHTS ON HOW TO WIN THE WAR ON TERROR
Positive news from Iraq. Our military does best fighting wars, not serving as policemen in urban , tribal warfare.
Ring around Baghdad should be our strategy. Let Iraqis restore law and order to the city. We seal borders
to stop inflow of men/munitions from Syria and Iran. Put those two on notice to cease and desist, or else!
If Iraqi government can't restore order. Set up U S military government just like Gen MacArthur did in Japan
after WWII, and as we did in Germany.
Restoration of law and order, eradication of terrorists should be priorities. Once stability happens, Iraqis will
go back to work.
Tax oil reserves to pay for U S war effort and pay reparations to families of U S servicemen/women killed and wounded in Iraq/Afghanistan campaigns. Give ordinary Iraqis part of oil revenues, annually, based on good behavior, just like in State of Alaska.
Need more boots on ground? Hire Indian army units, place under joint U S/British command.
President Bush and politicians should leave war effort to Generals and military. Bush and Congress should
immediately exercise their constitutional authority and responsibility to secure U S borders and ports.
No benefits/jobs for illegals. (No driver's licenses, either, Governor Streamroller). No free education. Go home!
Immediately deport thousands of prisoners/felons. Dump them back across Mexican border or send them to Venezuela.
Set up immediate naval blockade of Venezuela. No oil out. No Iraqi/Russian/Chinese arms/missiles in.
J P Sullivan
Read article on Offense by Colonel Ralph Peters:
WINNING ON OFFENSE
REAL PLAN TO DEFEAT IRAQ FOES
June 21, 2007 -- HALLELUJAH! For the first time since Baghdad fell, our military in Iraq has a comprehensive, integrated plan to defeat our enemies.
Until now, our efforts have always been piecemeal, stop-start affairs. Even our success in the Second Battle of Fallujah in 2004 went unexploited.
Things have changed. And terrorists, not just Iraqi civilians, are dying.
The 10,000-man operation reported in the Baquba area is only one part of a broader effort. In the words of a well-placed officer in Baghdad, "Operations like that are going on around Fallujah, Salman Pak, in Eastern Anbar, the belts around Baghdad, in Arab Jabour, outside of Taji and throughout the Diyala River Valley."
This widespread offensive against al Qaeda in Iraq and other terrorists is part of a carefully developed, phased plan. The first step as the troop surge proceeded was to establish livable conditions in key neighborhoods of the capital.
That step was vital, but insufficient in itself. Terrorists fled, but they didn't disappear. They just sought refuge elsewhere. And while neighborhood pacification involved aggressive tactical actions, it ultimately put our forces in a defensive posture.
And you can't win solely by playing defense, either in the NFL or in war.
Gen. David Petraeus understood that. He's done things methodically, operating from a coherent design - not just reacting as was our practice in the past, but imposing our will on the enemy. After regaining lost ground in Baghdad and exploiting Sunni Arab disillusionment with al Qaeda in Anbar Province, our military took the offensive. We pushed the enemy off "our" turf. Now we're going after "their" turf.
This balance between defensive and offensive operations, integrated across central Iraq, is the first time we've seen a classic approach to military operations in post-Saddam Iraq. Amazing, but true.
What hurdles lie ahead?
First, it remains an open question whether we've got enough boots on the ground. While Petraeus and his team are using our forces with remarkable efficiency, there ain't no more to send.
The second, enduring question is whether the Iraqis will finally knock off their squabbling and shoulder their share of the burden. Petraeus is giving us a lesson in skillful generalship, employing U.S. troops where he must, Iraqis where he can. But, in the end, we can't win this unless the Iraqis win it for themselves. Pious statements about "brave Iraqis" only get us so far: We're still only buying time - and no one can pretend that time isn't running out.
Which brings us to the home front, where the war just might be lost, no matter what progress we make on the ground.
Political hucksterism and poll-pandering on Capitol Hill amount to stabbing our troops in the back. Period. The insistence that success or failure will be determined beyond doubt by September is pure political quackery.
The military operations and political maneuvering in Iraq are infernally complex. The earliest we might know anything will be around Thanksgiving - and all we'll know then is whether or not the Iraqis are getting on board in a serious way.
After four lost years, we need to have realistic expectations - unless we intend to throw the game for domestic political reasons. Gen. Petraeus is playing a bad hand with greater skill than we had any right to expect. He's making meaningful tactical progress. We don't yet know if that will translate into a strategic turnaround - but, for God's sake, let's give him a chance.
And let's not lose sight of our own national-security priority, which is defeating al Qaeda. Terror International is having a really bad time in Iraq these days: More and more Sunni Arabs are breaking with al Qaeda and its affiliates over their insufferable brutality. The Baquba-area operations involve former enemies now fighting on our side against the foreign terrorists. That's not just good news for Iraq. It's good news for America.
Much could still go wrong. We don't know if those Sunni Arabs will keep faith with us over the longer term - and now the Shias who control the government are bewailing our new local alliances. Sunni Arabs have realized at last that they've got to "cooperate to graduate." Now the Shia are the ones who insist on playing a zero-sum game.
And, of course, we never eliminated Muqtada al-Sadr. For which we're going to be even sorrier than we are now.
Still, there's reason for sober optimism at the moment: We've finally got a coherent approach to defeating our enemies, not just parrying them. It looks like our military leaders have gotten serious at last.
God help us, it almost looks like we want to win.
Source: NY Post June 21, 2007
Friday, June 15, 2007
GENERAL PACE; AN HONORABLE MARINE
GENERAL PETER PACE AN HONORABLE MARINE WHO HAS SERVED THIS COUNTRY WELL.
CAN'T SAY THE SAME FOR THE SECRETERY OF DEFENCE (GATES) and PRESIDENT BUSH.
POLITICIANS MAKING BAD CHOICES, SETTING STUPID RULES OF ENGAGEMENT, ARE THE REASONS THE IRAQ WAR HAS GONE BAD .
GENERAL PACE WAS WILLING TO TAKE ON HARRY REID, NANCY PELOSI AND THE REST OF THE DISGRACEFUL DEMOCRATS WHO ARE UNDERMINING THE EFFORTS OF OUR TROOPS IN BATTLE.
PRESIDENT BUSH WAS WILLING TO TANK GENERAL PACE IN HOPES OF GETTING THE AMNESTY BILL FOR ILLEGALS ALIENS PASSED.
THE PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS HAVE THE CONSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITY TO SECURE OUR NATIONS BORDERS. NO ADDITIONAL ILLEGAL ALIEN LEGISLATION IS NEEDED!
DO YOUR JOB CONGRESS AND MR. PRESIDENT - SECURE OUR BORDERS NOW!
FAILURE TO SECURE IRAQ's BORDERS ALLOWING MEN AND WEAPONS IN FROM SYRIA AND IRAN IS PROLONGING THE CONFLICT THERE AND RESULTING IN MANY MORE U S CASUALTIES.
LIKEWISE, CONGRESS AND THE PRESIDENT ARE FAILING TO ENFORCE THE MONROE DOCTRINE IN LATIN AMERICA BY ALLOWING CHINA, RUSSIA AND IRAN TO ESTABLISH BASES IN LATIN AMERICA, THAT WILL, ONE DAY, BE USED AGAINST AMERICA.
PETTY TIN HORN HUGO CHAVEZ (VENEZUELA) WILL ALLOW IRAN TO SET UP MISSLES THAT CAN REACH EVERY U S AND CANADIAN CITY.
IRAN WILL BE ABLE TO USE CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS TO INFLICT TERRIBLE DAMAGE ON AMERICA.
WHAT ARE PRESIDENT BUSH AND CONGRESS WAITING FOR???
THE MILLIONS OF ILLEGAL ALIENS WILL UNITE WITH NATIVE BORN MALCONTENTS TO SERVE AS THE GROUND TROOPS FOR THE ISLAMIC TERRORISTS WHO SEEK TO DESTROY US.
THE 2008 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION MAY NEVER HAPPEN. WAKE UP AMERICA, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE FOR THE NATION AND FOR US AND OUR LOVED ONES.
J P SULLIVAN
ALBANY, NEW YORK
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