{"id":138,"date":"2005-06-07T11:50:51","date_gmt":"2005-06-07T15:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/07\/disobey-authority-and-live\/"},"modified":"2005-06-07T11:50:51","modified_gmt":"2005-06-07T15:50:51","slug":"disobey-authority-and-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/07\/disobey-authority-and-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Disobey authority&#8230; and live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Wolf writes a thought-provoking and short (both good) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wired\/archive\/13.06\/start.html?pg=3\">article<\/a> for Wired opining that the future of American security lies in ignoring the Department of Homeland Security, with its &#8220;rainbow of doom,&#8221; its magic airport involuntary nudity machines, and its suspension of the Constitution and relying instead on common sense and democratic fundamentals. Regarding 9\/11:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After both buildings were burning, many calls to 911 resulted in advice to stay put and wait for rescue. Also, occupants of the towers had been trained to use the stairs, not the elevators, in case of evacuation.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, this advice was mostly ignored. According to the engineers, use of elevators in the early phase of the evacuation, along with the decision to not stay put, saved roughly 2,500 lives. This disobedience had nothing to do with panic. The report documents how evacuees stopped to help the injured and assist the mobility-impaired, even to give emotional comfort. Not panic but what disaster experts call reasoned flight ruled the day.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the people inside the towers were better informed and far more knowledgeable than emergency operators far from the scene. While walking down the stairs, they answered their cell phones and glanced at their BlackBerries, learning from friends that there had been a terrorist attack and that the Pentagon had also been hit. News of what was happening passed by word of mouth, and fellow workers pressed hesitating colleagues to continue their exit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Wolf writes a thought-provoking and short (both good) article for Wired opining that the future of American security lies in ignoring the Department of Homeland Security, with its &#8220;rainbow of doom,&#8221; its magic airport involuntary nudity machines, and its suspension of the Constitution and relying instead on common sense and democratic fundamentals. Regarding 9\/11: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}