London incidents

Wed Jul 13 04:19:29 UTC 2005

On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Jim Popovitch wrote:

> 
> --- "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick at ianai.net> wrote:
> > 
> > No, it's damned if you take stupid action, damned if you do not do  
> > something you should.
> > 
> > People in charge of our security should not be allowed to take  
> > whatever action comes to mind in the name of security.  
> 
> Then who should, and with data from who's mind?  I suppose they (the 
> ones in charge) could spend their time polling the audience, but that
> has it's price and uncertainty too.

Indeed it does, but I have to question whether the cellphone decision was 
well-thought-out. I really can't believe it was.

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