Ghost of a flea: The coming swarm

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February 16, 2009

The coming swarm

With a unicorn in the White House, the New York Times has given itself permission to think what the sane amongst us were thinking at about about nine in the morning a few years back. The good news is we are now one step closer to "the left" denouncing President Obama as a "house" so-and-so. Silver lining and all that.

Nightmare possibilities include synchronized assaults on several shopping malls, high-rise office buildings or other places that have lots of people and relatively few exits. Another option would be to set loose half a dozen two-man sniper teams in some metropolitan area — you only have to recall the havoc caused by the Washington sniper in 2002 to imagine how huge a panic a slightly larger version of that form of terrorism would cause.

So how are swarms to be countered? The simplest way is to create many more units able to respond to simultaneous, small-scale attacks and spread them around the country.

Quite. These units are called "armed civilians".

Posted by Ghost of a flea at February 16, 2009 06:54 AM

Comments

When this happens, and it will happen, It will be in states where there are no "armed civilians"

It will happen in Chicago, LA and NYC, places where The sheepdogs have been culled from the herd and the wolves run free.

Posted by: dpatten at February 16, 2009 12:59 PM