{"id":26089,"date":"2011-08-04T12:37:04","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T16:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26089"},"modified":"2011-08-04T12:37:04","modified_gmt":"2011-08-04T16:37:04","slug":"security-at-hood-may-not-have-stopped-abdo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26089","title":{"rendered":"Security at Hood may not have stopped Abdo"},"content":{"rendered":"

As our latest non-right wing terrorist, Jason Naser Abdo, goes to court, the San Antonio Express<\/a> questions whether Fort Hood’s security would have been enough to prevent another Nidal Hassan-style assault on the central Texas military base;<\/p>\n

Fort Hood has armed contract guards at its gates and conducts random searches of cars, but the procedures might not have been enough to foil an attack. Guards at the gates that day checked every military ID but did not run the data through a database that would have alerted them to Abdo’s status as an AWOL soldier.<\/p>\n

\u201cI cannot say specifically how or what security personnel scan for at (gates), nor can I say how often and thorough these scans are, as the Army does not discuss security procedures,\u201d Army spokesman Wayne Hall said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, of course it wouldn’t have stopped him. Security in this country is designed to provide employment for otherwise unemployable people and to harass the rest of us who are trying to get to work. Just because guards have more technology to prevent crime than they’ve ever had in history doesn’t mean they’re going to employ it properly. The rest of us are expect to produce something, but security guards aren’t held to same level of performance.<\/p>\n

Military gate guards worldwide have a scanner they can use to check a central data base to see if you’re authorized to enter a military facility, but if that database isn’t kept up-to-date, what good is the scanner. I doubt it would have reflected that Abdo was AWOL because it had only been a month since he absconded and you know some portly wienie had a stack of updates in his inbox that he hadn’t input in just a month.<\/p>\n

And we’re supposed to understand that level of incompetence because the work is so mundane and repetitive, so what if lives depend on those guys accomplishing a few simple tasks. Just so long as they give us the impression that their level of security is impenetrable. it’s all about perception right?<\/p>\n

Perception may have worked in Abdo’s case; <\/p>\n

A federal affidavit stated that Abdo \u201cintended to conduct an attack against Killeen and Fort Hood.\u201d But sources in Washington say he told police he was wary of entering Fort Hood because he was unfamiliar with the post.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But how much longer can we depend on perception to protect us?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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