[IP] more about Boston controversy: my Boston Globe op-ed on technological lessons

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: "W. David Stephenson" <wdavidstephenson@gmail.com>
Date: February 2, 2007 12:28:10 PM EST
To: dave@farber.net
Subject: more about Boston controversy: my Boston Globe op-ed on  
technological lessons
Reply-To: wdavidstephenson@gmail.com

To: Dave Farber
From: W. David Stephenson

I saw Lauren Weinstein's reaction to the Boston incidents, and, as a  
homeland security consultant,  must say the Boston police acted  
exactly as they should have, especially since these idiots (I choose  
the word knowingly) put one of them on a bridge abutment under an  
Interstate and adjacent to a subway station: exactly the kind of high- 
damage target that the police must take seriously.  Add in the others  
on bridges, and I'm adamant: it was absolutely wrong,  (BTW, I'm  
staggered by the number of their sympathizers who've attacked me for  
telling them to grow up. Tough luck, kiddies, it's post 9/11. No  
apologies on my part).

Meanwhile, I wrote an op-ed in today's Boston Globe that does say the  
authorities need to bring young people into the terrorism and natural  
disaster response network, especially since they are the masters of  
innovative use of networked personal communication devices and apps  
that could be crucial in ad hoc communications after a disaster.
W. David Stephenson

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D.Stephenson@stephensonstrategies.com
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