Terror 2.0-- Never let a good crisis go to waste

Canada had its terrorist incident recently paving the way to more security on the part of government.  Now France.  This is a equal opportunity crises situation.  Everyone that stands to benefit from it can take advantage of it.

More security, more surveillance.  Fox calls for more surveillance and detection based on the fact that the French terrorists had past records.  On the no fly list.  They were known.  Unlike 9/11 when they were not known.  So after all the security and surveillance now we can know the history of terrorists when they commit acts of terror.  That however does little good when it does not result in increased surveillance of those with a past history of some sort that warrants closer control of these people to prevent future acts of terrorism.  This might be called predictive policing based on identifying individuals that are most likely to commit future crime and preventing it before they do.

Seems like there was a movie about that.  In another movie time travel was used to go back and correct the situation before it could happen.  Otherwise we just lock the door after the horse is gone.

Maybe one of the good news aspects of this recent terror tragedy is that there will be less heat on the NSA for surveillance of everyone to identify potential terrorists among US citizens.

Invest in surveillance contractors.

With total information all the time for everyone then when a terrorist incident happens then all those that are identified by surveillance records to be associated with them can be rounded up for interrogation.  Doesn't work to well in the lone wolf nut job scenario.  That is where predictive behavior applied to everyone identifies the loners.  It all depends on how big the dragnet is designed to be to catch the undesirables, also the definition of what an undesirable is and what their identifying traits are.

Privacy?  That is the price to be paid for security, or so they say.

What is the future?  More militarizing of police forces.  Its a war.  More terrorist response training for every police force in every town.  More surveillance at the local level by police forces.  Integration of police forces from the local level to the Fusion Centers as agencies of the Federal government.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States has issued a global travel warning after recent terror attacks in France, Australia and Canada.

All terror, all the time on Fox News