Because of a blog I posted [http://janbtucker.com/blog/2015/06/10/persistence-of-the-isis-threat-in-california-a-guest-opinion-by-robert-dougherty/ ]
a paranoid now-suspended lawyer Guillermo Suarez and his cohorts wound up accusing me of supposedly being an informer against the National Chicano Moratorium Committee [see: http://janbtucker.com/blog/2016/11/06/guillermo-suarez-credible-or-incredible/ and http://janbtucker.com/blog/2016/11/04/guillermo-suarez-liar-paranoid-and-incompetent/ and http://janbtucker.com/blog/2016/08/30/lupe-carrasco-ignorant-or-a-prevaricator/ ].
The terrorist threats made today against the Universal City subway station underscore the hard reality of issues I raised in that blog, where I wrote:
L to R: Journalist Sandra Luz Gallegos, PI & Ex-Secret Service Agent Joe Paolella, Jan B, Tucker, and the late PI Melanie Paek in Universal City Subway for Anti-Terrorist Training
A few years ago, I participated in a training exercise in which a team of Sheriff’s Deputies swept a Los Angeles subway train during a simulated terrorist attack. I posed as a simple passenger: little did the deputies know or suspect that I was actually a private sector professional myself, and their actions and omissions that night left much to be desired. That said, I was extremely concerned to hear of the plans of Nicholas Teausant–who was last known to be on medication for schizophrenia–to bomb the Los Angeles subway system: http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article2607845.html [Emphasis added]
I emphasize the training because that training was…..at the Universal City Subway Station.
Incidents like this have serious consequences even when they’re just hoaxes. How many people won’t make it to work or who’ll be late or have their child care or children’s school plans disrupted because of these incidents? To people who don’t live in New York, the horrors to the 9/11/2001 attacks are often an abstraction, until you start looking at demographics, like how many union members lost their lives, how many were foreign nationals, and the like. According to the CDC (Center for Disease Control, a federal agency):
Of these 2,726 decedents, 1,659 (61%) were non-Hispanic white males, 407 (15%) were non-Hispanic white females, 177 (6%) were Hispanic males, 81 (3%) were Hispanic females, 136 (5%) were non-Hispanic black males, 79 (3%) non-Hispanic black females, 122 (4%) were Asian/Pacific Islander (API) males, and 54 (2%) were API females. A total of 1,837 (67%) had graduated from college or had postgraduate education (males, 69%; females, 63%)
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