Originally posted by xaos
It took the deaths of 3000 people on american soil to reform these agencies? what?
This lack of foresightedness happens on *all* levels, simply because I've heard of no one who can so acurately predict the future as to avoid *future
tragedies*. As an example of this lack of foresight on a local (municipal) level, my hometown had built a bypass around the city-borderline...But
there was one intersection in particular that seemed to invite idiots to jump out into (highway-speed) oncoming traffic. It seems that the people
wanting to turn onto the bypass or simply go through to the other side of it were having difficulties "judging the speed" of the traffic on the
bypass itself...So they'd wind up jumping out into the traffic, even knowing in advance that the bypass traffic was *moving at highway speeds*!
After nearly a year & 30+ accident-related deaths, the city *finally* put up a traffic light to replace the original stop sign.
...At that time, a "joke" was popular that asks, "How many people have to die before someone *actually does something* about the problem?" But the
"problem" was based on each individual's lack of judgment when trying to cross that intersection or turn onto the bypass *at that particular
intersection*...None of the other intersections along the bypass had that seriousness of the problem.
However, those angencies that took 9/11 as an oportunity to reform had already been informed of the potential tragedy...And were actively suppressed
by the Bush administration from *doing anything* about it...This same "suppression of action" to allow such tragedies has happened (in various
levels of seriousness) in *every* federal administration for decades...
...It's not that only certain departments need restructuring, the entire governmental structure needs restructuring...
[Edited on 12-2-2003 by MidnightDStroyer]
