[Alumni-chat] "Student Trustees" at Antioch?

[Sistersara at aol.com]

In a message dated 1/10/2008 10:18:35 A.M. Central Standard Time,  
sjr5 at nyu.edu writes:

They  decide to have a DELTA trained SWAT unit as part of the campus 
> police  force



Frankly, I hope all Nuclear Facilities have very strong security, and I  
suppose that includes former members of DELTA force.  I have seen two  serious 
security incidents at Nuclear Power facilities, privately owned and  operated, 
where serious problems occurred because of security folk being into  drugs, and 
drugs being present in the security facilities and the control  room.  These 
are not recent -- they were back a decade or two -- but they  were serious, 
including the involvement of some of the security people in a drug  ring involved 
with bringing drugs in from Columbia, and blackmail of the  security people 
to protect the group involved in the importation.  
 
I dislike a public policy that builds ever more powerful nuclear weapons  
with the rest of our crowd -- but the place to attack this is in Congress.   If 
the University of California doesn't manage Lawrence-Livermore, another  
University will walk in and take over the contract -- or they will create a  private 
equity company to do it at a huge private profit.  In fact, one of  the first 
things Bush did in 2001, was try to remove the contracts from UC, and  move 
them to Texas, and with some he succeeded.  I distrust, and personally  
protested the ending of the Professional Security Service of the Department of  
Energy contract for security at Los Alamos, and the substitution of a  rent-a-cops 
outfit like Dynacorp.  I don't think Blackwater should be  sub-contracting 
this kind of security service.  
 
In the end, this is a political policy matter -- and the responsibility is  
in Congress.  That is where you focus your effort.  At any Nuclear  site, 
including private power generating stations, there is waste material that  could do 
huge damage in the wrong hands -- and Congress needs to be responsible  for 
making clear the kind of security that is required.  They need a public  that 
tells then not to farm it out to private security firms who offer the  lowest 
bid.  
 
And yes, sometimes late at night I wake up and decide to do something of  
interest such as checking out my E-Mail.  The joy of the internet is that  you 
are not necessarily a 9-5 person.  



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