This is a great post on homeland preparedness, and a sensible call for us - all of us - to get ready.
...publication yesterday of the report of the Commission on the Prevention of WMD Proliferation and Terrorism. In short, the report virtually promised a major WMD attack on the U.S. homeland within the next five years, by 2013—and said that deaths in the hundreds of thousands could well be the tally...
... I think that no-bullshit training and organizing of you and me and our neighbors in Civil Defense, not unlike World War II practices, should share top billing...
...you and I should be exceptionally well trained and exceptionally well organized to be part of the solution, a big part, rather than part of the problem...
...My entire "training" since 9/11 has amounted to half listening to airport announcements telling me to look out for suspicious things. That is a pathetic request for my involvement. And I'll bet things don't change much—or at all.
My bottom line, and others have said this, is that I, and I suspect you, stand ready for my country to ask much of me in defending our homeland...
DR posted a while back and I followed up with some suggestions to get ready. Might be the best self-defense training you ever got.
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Following are some good resources for disaster preparedness...
