Couldn’t resist…
“There was no proper plan for a terrorist attack and the fire department radios did not work, causing the death of my son,” Regenhard said. “Is that leadership?”
Um, lady, I don’t know you, but I’m kinda glad I don’t. First, let me get the obvious stuff out of the way: all death is tragic. Her son died, and that’s a sad thing, and if you read this and think I’m trying to demean that, please go away. I’m not. The reason there was no plan for terrorist attack (which is sort of untrue.. there was no plan for jet planes being used as missiles to attack tall buildings… which in the scope of common sense before 9/11 would have been rather easy to overlook) is that a plan for terrorist attack was in the planning stages. And the reason the radios didn’t work is called physics. P-H-Y-S-I-C-S. Emergency radios normally work in peacetime because very few are communicating at any given time in a certain area. When there’s an incredibly dense population of radios, all trying to transmit, things get garbled. Thank the FCC for part of that, and sheer volume for the other part. Thank also the fact that large radio transmitters were destroyed by the collapse of the towers. So don’t blame Giuliani’s leadership, lack of (at the time) pie-in-the-sky foresight, or failures of modern physics and electronic design. If radios had worked, there could very well have still been people trapped, etc. If the planes had been deflected (to where? Manhattan is so densely populated that they would have to hit something), had a million things gone differently, no one can tell what might have happened. (such assumptions are called contrapositives and are logically invalid) Nobody knows what might have happened. I don’t practice Santeria… I ain’t got no crystal ball…
