Thinking like the terrorists
Listen to this articleIn the third Die Hard Film — Die Hard With a Vengeance — the bad guy, played by Jeremy Irons, leads Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson on a wild goose chase around New York City while the bad guy and his henchmen (and woman) rob a bank. Anyway, it got me to thinking about Tuesday’s hoax bomb threat that forced the LA Unified School District to close 1,100 schools.
If I am a terrorist, I see what the response was and go about implementing a plan that once again forces L.A. to close its schools. The idea is, public officials will overreact to a bomb threat given today’s world and in the process, send hundreds, maybe thousands of kids to their death. How?
Well, because the schools were closed without warning, scores of students were left without a way to get home. As a result, Los Angeles’ mass transit system immediately offered free transportation today for all stranded students.
Here is where a smart terrorist steps in. Rather than targeting 1,100 schools with law enforcement swarmed all over them, they just have to target five to ten city buses, many of which are carrying students back to their homes. Law enforcement thinks they have the situation covered by closing and searching schools when in reality they are being led away from where terrorists really want to strike.
Why am I telling you this? It is not to help terrorists; they really do not need it. It’s to wake people up and get them to realize just how easy it is for people with evil intent to bring a city to its knees.
Just a day after Obama bragged about the gains we have made against ISIS, they have once again made a mockery of him by showing just how easy it is for them to control our actions, or reactions.
This is important to understand because until we are able to force the hands of our enemy, they will continue to strike fear in us and make us rethink what we take for granted. Our next POTUS is clearly going to be left with the task of ridding the world of this cancer and you should ask yourself if what they are proposing is really going to work.
Do we stick with what we have been doing? Do we place more boots on the ground? To we turn the entire Middle East into a sea of glass? Do we pull out all together and use our resources to protect our border? Do we fight a politically correct war or do we fight to win at all cost and deal with the aftermath once we have victory in hand?
These are just some of the questions that not only need to be asked to all political candidates, but we must ask them of ourselves before we decide who we vote for next fall.
Top photo: LAUSD Superintendent Ramone Cortines giving his Tuesday Morning press conference (YouTube)
Jim is a life long resident of California and retired school teacher with 30 years in public education. Jim earned his BA in History from CSU Chico in 1981 and his MA in Education from Azusa Pacific University in 1994. He is also the author of Teaching The Teacher: Lessons Learned From Teaching. Jim considers himself an equal opportunity pain in the ass to any political party, group, or individual who looks to profit off of hypocrisy. When he is not pointing out the conflicting words and actions of our leaders, the NFL commissioner, or humans in general, he can be found riding his bike for hours on end while pondering his next article. Jim recently moved to Camarillo, CA after being convinced to join the witness protection program.