Opinion piece from www.whatreallyhappened.com

The blacked-out blackout.

Burning transformer on 14th street, lightning strike in Niagara, failed power plant in Pennsylvania, failed power plant in Ohio, problems west of Ontario; we are into day two of the great northeastern blackout of 2003 and nobody knows exactly what went wrong. But two things are clear.

First: Despite the lessons learned in 1965 and 1977, the power infrastructure of the United States is a delicate and fragile system that can be taken down by a single point failure. It is hard to claim to be a world leader when one cannot keep the lights on. We are a first world nation with a third world power supply.

Second: Our much vaunted Homeland Security Department is as much in the dark about what happened as anyone else, if you'll pardon the pun. Had the blackout actually been a terrorist attack, the HS boys would still be scratching their heads, unable to locate the problem, let alone decide how to fix it. And this means that with all their spy cameras on we the people, the "peek-a-boo" scanners that see through our clothes at the airports, the covert searches of our computers and homes, the Homeland Security people are looking in the wrong places, because today we know the homeland ISN'T secure, and that fact caught the Homeland Security people completely by surprise. Just think about it. For all their peeking into our mail, banking transactions, and posing with guns and uniforms at airports, the Homeland Security people were caught off guard by the blackout. Which means that if it HAD been a terrorist event, Homeland Security would have failed their primary mission, indeed HAVE failed their primary mission, which is to identify ALL points of vulnerability in the nation and secure them against attack, not just spy on the citizens to make sure they are not unhappy with the current leadership.

The blackout has taught us all a lesson. We are not secure. We may have shiny new locks on the front doors but the foundations of the nation are cracked and rotted. The roads are falling into disrepair, the power grid has become unreliable, mail service has slowed down, schools do not teach, emergency rooms close, the internet is clogged with viruses and worms; each and every one of these problematic infrastructures is a threat to Homeland Security, and all are being ignored by the people who take our tax money and use it to watch us, while claiming to be concerned for the security of the nation.

Well, the nation is NOT secure. This blackout may not have been an act of terrorism, but it proves that such an act was not only possible but capable of producing a wide area result. and yet the department of Homeland Security has never once taken steps to make the power system more able to survive single-point failures. Nor for that matter have we seen the Homeland security people give more than a passing glance at the MSBlast worm ripping through the internet as I type this. Homeland Security hasn't made the homeland more secure. It just spies on the citizens. Which proves the Department of Homeland Security is really not about protecting the people, but merely keeping an eye on them.



PARDON THE PUN, indeed....

It may be a common expression, but why would someone whisper IN THE DARK exactly?

And how important was Detroit in the murmurings, and why has it been observed to be particularly quiet there still?

(Just rambling about coincidences.)

The blackout has taught us all a lesson. We are not secure. We may have shiny new locks on the front doors but the foundations of the nation are cracked and rotted.

And the backdoor is wide open, people can slip in from canada and mexico with relative ease, even the cubans seem to be having an easy time of it, next will be a screwup of monumental proportions in order to justify new anti-freedom oops... anti-terror legislation about to be passed by congress, mainly in the shape of the patriot act II.

We're all screwed, its just a matter of time.

The reason for homeland security has always been to find out what the 180 million people in the U.S who DONT vote are really thinking and doing.
Inclusion implies exclusion. If we keep looking for enemies we will find them. (whispered in the dark...)

[You are all absolutely free]

I thought of that as well.
This was an accident and took out 1/3 of the country, if you knew how the system worked and then took out a couple of stations - easy to do with an RPG similar, then the country would be defenceless .. even the cell phones didn't work.

Its good it happened now, there will be some very worried people out there in military land I think

The Mator of Cleveland was just putting her two cents in. More Police, less arrests she said, because of heavy police presence. I can see where thats going: show the public that everything will be better with more cops on the street. Show the public everything will be better with draconian security.

This is a test, only a test.

Show the public everything will be better with draconian security.

Yep, and by the time elections roll around they will have captured the popular vote, because everyone feels so much safer! Just like we felt before 9/11....

Wait a sec, 9/11 happened with these folks in control... 9/11 shouldn't have happened...

[Edited on 16-8-2003 by MKULTRA]

LOL Our Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham just came on FoxNews right now, ~12:30am EST 8/16/03. Must be back from testing cars.

He said that one of the tasks that had been given to him was finding out what happened.

Only 1 question was asked about terrorism, and he dodged answering it quite eloquently.

How was it that even tho no one knows what really happend...anyone can say with relative certaintity...that the cause was NOT terrorism..from the outside or from the inside our own country?

Early interviews with people that worked with power plants suggested that it would be difficult to get Nuke Plants up and running as quickly as they have..but seems like they found the "secret" as how to do so....Does anyone remember the Prez commenting about Rolling Blackouts?...this was before any power had been restored..and he said that he was being kept informed on the "rolling blackouts"...something like that.
Seems that it came to pass in some places....

there is just something that is bothersome about why this happend..and who brought it about...just doesn't feel right...

~Oricle

Why use an RPG to do work that can be done with a hatchet

Terrorism has opened up markets for things that no-one thought much about until it came up,including improving the power grid structure,there was no real money in maintaining it,maintenance cuts into profits.

This is all threshold testing,to see how much garbage people are willing to digest before they puke,there are a lot of parts to the story,so many in fact,that most people can't see enough of it to see any of it.

Considering that it is harder to get by every year,thrashing and fighting to keep our heads above water financially,the majority just worry about their own little lives without the time to look any further than that,this is not an accident!.

MMMMMMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

This is all threshold testing,to see how much garbage people are willing to digest before they puke,there are a lot of parts to the story,so many in fact,that most people can't see enough of it to see any of it.

Yes there are, but all parts point to profits. Lets not fool ourselves into thinking that the elite actually care about us. They are motivated by money (i.e. which affords knowledge and more power). If we choose to stand in the way of their gaining profits, the controls are already in place for them to employ a consequence.

Remember that this agenda is a PROCESS, just like any well organized plan. You can deny that a plan exists, if it makes you feel more comfortable. And actually I would really appreciate seeing evidence that contradicts anything that I've said about this situation. It helps us all to have multiple sources of evidence.

IN THE DARK.

wow. i didn't even think of that possible connection, and i have been very interested in the WITD postings since i found out about them.

detroit was quiet because of a massive mobilization of law enforcement. not martial law exactly, but related in a way.

all cops were called to duty at that time. curfews were imposed.

Pay attention to the locations of your leaders.
Where are they? Why are they spread about?
This is concern.



Whispers about the football are unconfirmed.
But the event matches other events.

It is either in anticipation of something critical or for the prevention of something more critical.


[Edited on 17-8-2003 by The General]

Keep in mind, they still have not "officially" found the cause, and whatever they do come out with as a cause is likely to not be the true cause.

We are in for more of the same, and likely worse.

Whispers DID mention just this kind of event... terrorism in NYC, but not mass destruction, geared more towards mass disruption.