Reply #136: Some people are easy to scare

[pop goes the weasel]

And they've been peeing in their pants everytime Ashcroft says "Boo" or they see a plate of falafel. Let them cower in their bunkers and not vote. I'll still get out and do it, just as, on 9/11, after seeing the towers hit, I still drove 45 miles in to work from the safety of a rural area to an urban area at a time when we still weren't sure what was happening. I did my job and I calmed frightened people the whole time even though that isn't in my job description.

The reason that events were cancelled the week of 9/11 is that there was an astounding lack of planning in advance. Even long-standing emergency procedures weren't used (such as Emergency Broadcasting). Planning should be aimed at keeping the machinery of society going, not shutting it down or delaying it.