Paranoia
Maxey: Paranoia
By Ram Maxey
Bar None
WHEN British police unearthed a plan by terrorists to blow up 10-passenger jets from England to the United States over the Atlantic Ocean, all on the same day, the stunning news reverberated around the world and people asked, "What will they think of next?"
Good question. The very idea of ten planes loaded with more than 3,000 people of various nationalities blowing up in mid-air alerted the world to what extent extremists will go in thinking up hitherto unheard of ways of mayhem to advance their agenda of hate, even if it means killing innocent men, women and children in the process. Including even, who knows, their own countrymen who happen to be aboard.
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Had this latest caper pushed through, it would have rivaled the spectacular destruction some years back in New York City of the World Trade Center whose twin-towers were rammed by two passenger jets, which had been taken over by suicidal terrorists, killing thousands. It reveals one more diabolical method by which terrorists intend to commit mass murder.
Powerful chemicals disguised as cosmetics carried inside handbags, and which could be triggered to explode by mobile phone while the planes were over the Atlantic, shows how sophisticated terrorists have become. The fact that the sinister plot was discovered in the nick of time also shows that the terrorists have met more than their match in the form of intelligence agencies working around the clock to match wits with the enemy. That was a close shave.
What if the plot was not discovered in time?
Look what it has done to air travel. Passengers are advised to check in at the airport hours before their flight because it now takes that long to check baggage and luggage for those telltale vials or tubes of cosmetics.
That's speaking of planes and air travel. Nearer to home, what is to stop a terrorist from wrecking havoc in our hotels, malls and such crowded places by means of liquid explosives hidden in cosmetics stuff? Compared to airtight security at airports, these places are more porous where a damn clever terrorist could do his thing and get away with it.
This world is getting to be a dangerous place to live in, don't you think? Soon, people will become too paranoid about this phenomenon called terrorism. To avoid suspicion and troublesome inspection by security guards, the day may come when we may have to go around town wearing the scantiest clothing (probably the see-through type, mind you) so there will be no need for frisking.
Worse, God forbid, we may have to leave at home our precious, hitherto inseparable, little mobile phones. This magical little gadget, which has become so indispensable to our lives have overnight assumed the notoriety that comes with being an accessory to mass annihilation.
We can almost hear 25 million (?) mobile phone-crazy Pinoys screaming, "Death to all terrorists!" Hell hath no fury...
By Ram Maxey
Bar None
WHEN British police unearthed a plan by terrorists to blow up 10-passenger jets from England to the United States over the Atlantic Ocean, all on the same day, the stunning news reverberated around the world and people asked, "What will they think of next?"
Good question. The very idea of ten planes loaded with more than 3,000 people of various nationalities blowing up in mid-air alerted the world to what extent extremists will go in thinking up hitherto unheard of ways of mayhem to advance their agenda of hate, even if it means killing innocent men, women and children in the process. Including even, who knows, their own countrymen who happen to be aboard.
Arroyo Watch: Sun.Star blog on President Arroyo
Had this latest caper pushed through, it would have rivaled the spectacular destruction some years back in New York City of the World Trade Center whose twin-towers were rammed by two passenger jets, which had been taken over by suicidal terrorists, killing thousands. It reveals one more diabolical method by which terrorists intend to commit mass murder.
Powerful chemicals disguised as cosmetics carried inside handbags, and which could be triggered to explode by mobile phone while the planes were over the Atlantic, shows how sophisticated terrorists have become. The fact that the sinister plot was discovered in the nick of time also shows that the terrorists have met more than their match in the form of intelligence agencies working around the clock to match wits with the enemy. That was a close shave.
What if the plot was not discovered in time?
Look what it has done to air travel. Passengers are advised to check in at the airport hours before their flight because it now takes that long to check baggage and luggage for those telltale vials or tubes of cosmetics.
That's speaking of planes and air travel. Nearer to home, what is to stop a terrorist from wrecking havoc in our hotels, malls and such crowded places by means of liquid explosives hidden in cosmetics stuff? Compared to airtight security at airports, these places are more porous where a damn clever terrorist could do his thing and get away with it.
This world is getting to be a dangerous place to live in, don't you think? Soon, people will become too paranoid about this phenomenon called terrorism. To avoid suspicion and troublesome inspection by security guards, the day may come when we may have to go around town wearing the scantiest clothing (probably the see-through type, mind you) so there will be no need for frisking.
Worse, God forbid, we may have to leave at home our precious, hitherto inseparable, little mobile phones. This magical little gadget, which has become so indispensable to our lives have overnight assumed the notoriety that comes with being an accessory to mass annihilation.
We can almost hear 25 million (?) mobile phone-crazy Pinoys screaming, "Death to all terrorists!" Hell hath no fury...
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