We presently have adequate sniffer devices in this country to help us screen the trucks and containers coming into this country at our checkpoints and ports. Now we should be conducting massive recording of odors of trucking shipments and containers for database evaluations to insure that we do not unnecessarily impede the flow of trade or delay parts needed to run our economic powerhouse. We must provide for security and proper flow without creating additional choke points or create stoppage, which will result in billions in lost productivity. By having huge databases of sampling we will be able to determine and to find anomalies in rogue transportation events and prevent an attack on our homeland.
We need to know exactly how well the sniffers work, when they go astray labeling something as hazardous, radiologically threatening or biologically unsafe. There are many substances and chemicals, which are contained with in legitimate products, which are quite safe and properly controlled and relatively harmless in their uses. A container stopped due to radiological readings maybe a much-needed piece of equipment on it's way to a hospital to save lives. Or a chemical, which is much needed in water treatment to prevent biological risks to human life and water supply.
Eventually we may see Sniffer Sensors inside trucks and containers as the ultimate answer.
http://worldthinktank.net/wttbbs/index.php?showtopic=251
But at first we will need sensors and sniffers attached to infrastructure such as Highway bridges, port cranes, hand helds for Coast Guard personal boarding foreign ships, land border crossings and airports.
False alarms and unneeded impeding of our highways, border crossings, airports and ports will only lead to citizen and trading partner mistrust and will cost the country and the GDP in unnecessary decreases in national productivity. We need to get our ducks in a row and start by designing multi-sensor database profiles, which take into consideration normal shipments and everyday acceptable movements of products, raw materials and parts. By doing this we can prevent the gridlocks at airports while still catching shoe bombers, stop biological contaminants and weapons while still allowing for cross border trade and rest assure that the sum of all fears floating into one of our ports never makes it onto the docks, without impeding the flow of trade or upsetting our trusted trading partners, which has made the United States what it is today.
We must not live in fear and we must protect our homeland. By having large databases, which can instantly profile shipments we will be that much closer to the security we are trying to achieve and keep us at a level of safety that we deserve. It took a long time to build this great nation, we need to play it smart, set up the last lines of defense in a way that is becoming of our status as the number one economic powerhouse in the world.
Protection of our trucking, aviation, railways, port infrastructures is of primary concern, preventing weapons of mass destruction into our country has never been of greater importance, so lets get this show on the road, figure out what we need, enter the data into the databases, test the system, make corrections and keep the flow efficient, it is the only way to win this war on terror without giving up our quality of life, number one world status or right of free travel in our own country.
If you have thoughts on transportation or shipping security, which will solve the problems we face in this new era of terror without sacrificing the streamlined nature of our currents infrastructures and system, then lets here those ideas now.
"Lance Winslow" - If you have innovative thoughts and unique perspectives, come think with Lance; www.worldthinktank.net/wttbbs
monthly home cleaning Buffalo Grove ..Many folks who are pro-NASA and Pro-Space Colonies say that... Read More
At the start of the US involvement in WWII Joseph... Read More
The civil war in Iraq seems to be much more... Read More
The CBR taxes the Pakistani source income of nonresident individuals... Read More
For years we've suffered under recession, prompting us to ask,... Read More
It is amazing we have so many men, who belong... Read More
Sarbaines Oxley was probably the easiest way to destroy free... Read More
De-classification of official documents have been a routine practice in... Read More
Last week, the media coverage called the airplane crash in... Read More
With gasoline prices at the pump climbing strongly into the... Read More
Regarding the issues with the Space Shuttle and the in... Read More
Long Term Environmental Effect of Plastics, Composites and Other Materials... Read More
Large parts of the world today suffer from a severe... Read More
Are you happy with all this so-called security after 9-11?... Read More
Ethanol is a great way to produce fuel, great fuel... Read More
IntroductionThe way one lyrist has written, "Hum logo ko samajh... Read More
President Bush and Secretary Powell should hang their heads in... Read More
We are currently seeing a build up in China of... Read More
Britain has a proud tradition of valiant armed forces and... Read More
With new environmental technologies and modern efficiency methods in mining... Read More
To be justified, taxes should satisfy a few conditions:Above all,... Read More
Businesses advertising alcohol either in TV or non-broadcast format need... Read More
I am noticing an increasing and alarming rate to which... Read More
All countries have specific things that are abundant in the... Read More
Roberto Calvo Macias, a young author and thinker from Spain,... Read More
scheduled maid service Mundelein ..Non-lethal Goo Concepts have been tossed around by many war... Read More
Is Ohio Manufacturing Sector really unable to compete in the... Read More
We all know Elliot Spitzer is going to run for... Read More
The resignation from cabinet yesterday, Sunday, by the Israeli minister... Read More
We have seen an increase in Snowbirds from Northern States... Read More
Rufus King: (Said to be the fifth most important person... Read More
Why is it that every single thing government does; it... Read More
Rational, sober, logical citizens wonder what exactly the terrorists want.... Read More
Last week, the media coverage called the airplane crash in... Read More
How many legs does a dog have if you call... Read More
The United States and other first world nations have been... Read More
When you look at the news, immigrants are dying trying... Read More
"It is the duty of every citizen according to his... Read More
All to often law makers and regulators create rules and... Read More
Everyone knows the United States Government often falls down in... Read More
The Federal trade Commission has a rule, which says that... Read More
The head of the Club of Rome has said that... Read More
There are many issues on the minds of US voters... Read More
As we watch fewer Americans voting it is no wonder... Read More
What depth of blind insanity has inflicted itself upon Israel's... Read More
Lecture given at the Netherlands Economic Institute (NEI) on 18/4/2001Human... Read More
It is widely known in the Homosexual Male Populations that... Read More
"The Jesuit priest John H. Surratt, proven to be the... Read More
In the previous article, we described the various methods developed... Read More
The civil war in Iraq seems to be much more... Read More
Political |