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In the Race
Now, here, you see, it takes all the blogging I can do to keep in the same place. If I want to get somewhere else, I must blog twice as fast as that! You see, I'm in the Red Queen's Race...
The Hot Pet and What Kind of Country Are We Living In?
By Janet Evans
Wednesday, Mar 26 2008, 06:10 PM
After reading the story I am going to link you to, I know from past experience there will be differing views among my readers.
So be it.
I’m clear on my views.
This is a story about government surveillance.
It begins off the coast of Washington State, near the city of Bellingham, where federal agents are monitoring terrorist activity that could possibly come in off of ferry runs.
But this is off of an interstate highway, and they are monitoring the area for nuclear “dirty bombs.”
The article doesn’t say so, but for them to be monitoring specifically for this activity, you would think there has to have been some tip-off somewhere along the line….but back to the story.
They are monitoring activity using highly sensitive radiation detectors.
On this day, in the article, a car goes by at 70 miles per hour and the detector goes off with a warning.
They chase the driver, pull over the car, do questioning, do a search, and what do the find?
They find radiation, alright….but as my title suggests, it is a pet.
The owner's cat had cancer and had undergone radiation treatment several days earlier.
Now, I think….how cool is that...we could detect radiation from a cancer treatment? In a cat?
Look what we can do!
The article states something to that degree, also.
I say, keep it up and do what you have to do to prevent terrorism in the U.S.
We have already caught two terrorists on our soil, before they did the damage they intended to do, which you will also read about.
The writer will end his article with a quote from a Washington, San Juan County Councilman, Kevin Ranker, who says “I think it’s fair to say many people up here have been left wondering just what kind of country it is they’ re living in.”
Well, Kevin Ranker…I think we are living in a wonderful country.
And I would like to keep it that way.
I know it would be an inconvenience to be stopped by an FBI agent because I had radiation in my car.
I’m sure most people would be scared and angry about it at first.
But later, I’m sure you would feel reassured that if that had been a “dirty bomb” heading to San Juan, you would be safe.
God Bless America.
Here’s the story from the Seattle Times
ø Watch out, you’re being watched ÷ here
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