I heard this short interveiw on NPR's, Weekend Edition Saturday, Exploring 'The Price of Security'.
Ted Koppel, senior news analyst, discusses his upcoming documentary The Price of Security. The project explores the rights and freedoms Americans have sacrificed in the five years since the Sept. 11 attacks. It airs Sunday on the Discovery Channel.
The audio is Now Up at the NPR Site Page
If 9/11 had been treated as it should have been, a Criminal Act that it was, in concert with other Countries, who at the time were Solidly Behind Us, Criminal Investigators and Intelligence Forces, bringing in a Coalition of Military Forces when needed, we may have Contained and Captured those Involved!
We may have also minimized the Threats that would possibly follow, being able to track down any and all who might have tried to follow the same path, thus eliminating the use of these types of Criminal Guerilla Tactics that had been waged long before 9/11, Worldwide! Just ask anyone in 'Old Europe' that have bourn the brunt of these types of Destructive Criminal Acts!
We most certainly would not have the More Dangerous World we have today by making a bin Laden, and those to follow, into the Cult Figures of Millions, while Creating the more Hatreds that will breed the 'Criminal Terrorists' that most certainly will come looking for for retribution and retaliation for our own Criminal Acts, we consider righteous!
And we Certainly would not have contributed to the Killing and Maiming of Tens of Thousands on Innocents as well as the Thousands of Military Personal for not some 'Imagined' 'Noble Cause' only a few seem to have any idea of!!
The Price of Security Premieres Sunday, Sept 10th, at 8PM on the Discovery Channel
Just one of the links at the Discovery site:
Sept. 11 Poll Results
The Discovery Channel and TIME Magazine teamed up to measure the mood of the American people five years after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
The goal was to learn whether feelings and opinions about terrorism, the attacks and some of the government's domestic programs to curb terrorism have shifted over time. Are people more or less fearful than they were then? Do they feel any more secure now?
Get a taste for what the poll revealed about our national psyche here, then discuss how you feel in the Koppel conversation area.
Is the Bush administration using the threat of terrorism or the terrorism alerts for political reasons, or not?
Yes — 49%
No — 45%
Don't Know/No Answer — 6%
Will there be a time in the next ten years or so when the U.S. will have won the war on terrorism?
Yes — 23%
No — 69%
Don't Know/No Answer — 7%
Do you think Saddam Hussein was personally involved in the terrorist attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center?
Yes — 38%
No — 53%
Don't Know — 8%
Do you believe the U.S.'s involvement in the war in Iraq is hurting or helping the war on terrorism?
Hurting — 54%
Helping — 40%
Don't know/no answer — 6%
This Discovery Channel/TIME Magazine poll was conducted by telephone between Aug. 22-24, 2006, among a national random sample of 1,002 adults, age 18 and older throughout America. The data have been weighted to reflect the demographic composition of adult Americans. The poll's partisan breakdown is 32 percent Democrat, 28 percent Republican and 27 percent Independent.
The margin of error for the entire sample is approximately +/- 3 percentage points. The margin of error is higher for subgroups. Surveys are subject to other error sources as well, including sampling coverage error, recording error and respondent error. Schulman, Ronca & Bucuvalas (SRBI) Public Affairs designed the survey and conducted all interviewing.
After the showing there will be a Town Meeting
Take part in the live town meeting hosted by Ted Koppel that will air after The Price of Security on Sunday, Sept. 10, at 9:30 p.m. ET/PT.
Three to six questions submitted online will be read on the air for discussion by Koppel and the panel guests.
Send your question or comment to Koppel Town Meeting. Try to be as succinct as possible (make it short!), and include your name and location.
Discovery Channel Radio on Sirius Satellite Radio will simulcast Ted Koppel's The Price of Security and the live town hall meeting on Sirius Channel 119.
Scheduled Guests
Zoë Baird, President, Markle Foundation
Bradford Berenson, former Associate White House Counsel
Lanny Davis, Member, Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board
Jim Dempsey, Policy Director, Center for Democracy & Technology
Viet Dinh, former Assistant Attorney General for Legal Policy
Clark Kent Ervin, former Inspector General, Department of Homeland Security
Alamdar Hamdani, Civil rights attorney
David Holtzman, author, Privacy Lost
Gov. Tom Kean, Chair, 9/11 Commission
Paul McNulty, Deputy U.S. Attorney General
Alberto Mora, former General Counsel of the Department of the Navy
Nuala O’Connor Kelly, former Chief Privacy Officer, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Ted Olson, former Solicitor General and member of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board
Michael Ratner, President of the Center for Constitutional Rights and Adjunct Professor, Columbia University Law School
Tom Ridge, former Secretary of Homeland Security
Anthony Romero, Executive Director, American Civil Liberties Union
Marc Rotenberg, Executive Director, Electronic Privacy Information Center
Rep. Chris Shays, Chairman House Government Reform Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threat and International Relations
George Soros, Founder and Chairman, Open Society Institute and Soros Foundation
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson (ret.), former Chief of Staff, Secretary of State Colin Powell
Gen. Tony Zinni (ret.), former Commander of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM)
Dr. James J. Zogby, founder and president, Arab American Institute
Also at the live town meeting, Koppel will release results from a Discovery Channel/TIME Magazine poll that asked Americans which individual liberties they are willing to give up — or not give up — in the name of national security.
There's a page 2, to the above, visit link to read further.
There are also other links at the program site The Price of Security Premieres Sunday, Sept 10th, at 8PM that you might want to take a look at and participate in.
I haven't seen this Documentary, as I stated above, just heard the short interview, than investigated the Discovery Channels Site Links, but trusting Koppels reporting, and what he had said in the NPR interview, it should be closer to Reality than the Propaganda to Follow on Monday!!!
This may also be an Interesting Report, by someone who actually is a writer, to followup on either directly after or sometime on monday, before the Political Propaganda is aired!
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