Subject: Coast Guard: U.S. Vulnerable to Cole-Style Attacks
From: "OzOne
Date: 07/08/2004 21:15 Pacific Standard Time
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You guys really are paranoid about that hormnets nest you stirred up
Eh?


Yup, but fear not ..... given a few more years of throwing money all over the
place and writing stupid laws and regulations (10% of which may have long term
value), "big business" will realize how much money is being wasted for minimnal
results, and they'll put their foot down.
It happened after the Exxon Valdez and it will happen again.
A bunch of "Panic" laws and regulations will be implemented (good for votes),
then time will show that changes are needed and things will get smoothed out
and made "user friendly".
In many cases, the new laws/regs will become normal feeling and pose less
problems than they are ...in other cases, they will quietly be changed to
address reality.
Right now, the USCG is in seventh heaven. These people have always been the
"*******" organization that had to beg, borrow, and steal to get what they
needed.
With 9-11 they found a new and greater mission that would allow them access to
new and greater funding .... SECURITY.
Now their main focus is security followed by drugs followed by safety, etc.
..... and they'll play this for all it's worth (eg cain't say that I blame em,
considering how gov'ment programs/beuracracies [sp?] work)
Oh well, off the soap box ....in answer to the possibility of attacks ala
"Cole" ..... ain't no way one of these could be stopped under most conditions.

Shen