Patriot Act has nought much to do with stopping terrorism. That is a function of intelligence followed by going after the leadership and supplies. Protection is a function of non-consistent action. Different route, different locations, different patterns. Never predictable. Think of your self as in a globe. Not looking left right back front but also up and down and close far. With the equivalent of .50 cal MG a far ambush can execute, dismantle and move to a new location before the attacked unit can respond and secure the target area.

Translate that into other scenarios, My favorite is a grocery or retail store. While you are looking at something on the end cap of the shelves, you smell the bakery section and hear music that suggests a mood. Good retail stores are money magnet traps. Go for three items come back with four extra...why not I'm here it's on sale? Luring people into a spending sack or a fire sack is much the same thing. Creates a target rich environment.

I recall one store that had phony limited item sale tables. Shopping list forgotten the stampede was on. Five left at half price for the next ten minutes. Now one is surrounded by the real purpose. The other items they wish to sell. Each priced or with a sales tag that has no purpose except sell itself. Ten cent item regular retail a dollar on sale at 80 cents for the next hour 60 cents.

Then the bomb goes off which need not be an explosive. Maybe designed to get max people into a small area at one time.

Be unpredictable...

Staiy out of the cities but remember the terrorist handbook calls for striking where least expected, least protected with lots of collateral damage. Airplanes? Not a chance. Greyhound bus? Certainly. Major league sports venue? Probably not. Local high school friday night basketball game? Watch Carrie. But being out of the cities spreads the percentages as much as possible. the rule is whatever they hit it will b e something else something different the next time.

This message brought to you compliments of the John Wayne School For Wayward Yoots, Fort Bragg NC class of ....sometime in the sixties or seventies or eighties or.... De Opresso Liber!