"The non-fiction corollary to The Millenium Trilogy." Wet works and false...
Boston Bombing Brings Big Brother Big Bang for the Buck
This will be - roughly - the line that I'll be taking re Boston.
- how fast can planners shut down and gain control of a very large and complex city
- how might the population react when subjected to the first total lock down America has ever witnessed (bearing in mind no such thing happened after 9/11, Madrid, London et al, so the 'lessons' learned are obviously portable)
- how ghoulish must the strike be - preferably aimed at innocents abroad enjoying themselves. Location, location, location as they say in the real estate trade.
- how willingly the population will knuckle under and comply with complete cop and military rule, no transport, emergency services, people confined to their homes under fiat order - martial law in all but name with no legit edict
- next is very important:to discover how fast you could subdue a large segment of the population and impose martial law, how much will you share with pliant and obedient sections of the media in advance and in the subsequent cover up
- using this live open-air laboratory, study and note very carefully how people in the rest of America react, not excluding foreign reactions
- gauge carefully where resistance appears to the running script of a terrorist attack and where the holes appear in the narrative that threaten blowback consequences
- what must you do to construct and re-inforce the message and the narrative that allows you to get away with hi-jacking an entire city
- how do you cope with those who start to ask hard questions
- how the temporarily imprisoned respond when the controls are lifted - indignation, civil unrest and so forth, or simple resignation and relief that it 'wasn't much worse'.