Wednesday, May 10, 2006
Operation Skywatch
Previous administrations had a rather different attitude toward citizen participation in defense. I've talked before about the Ground Observer Corps during WW2.
Later, just after Korea, Ike put together something called Operation Skywatch. Here's a one-minute PSA from Fibber's show in 1953:
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If we'd had 400K flying citizens on the alert in the fall of 2001, would things have turned out differently? Would it have acted as a deterrent? No way to tell. But I can guarantee that the Bush approach of PUNISHING citizens who dare to help with defense is, shall we say, counterproductive. No, we shall say idiotic and suicidal. ¶ 11:27 AM
Previous administrations had a rather different attitude toward citizen participation in defense. I've talked before about the Ground Observer Corps during WW2.
Later, just after Korea, Ike put together something called Operation Skywatch. Here's a one-minute PSA from Fibber's show in 1953:
- - Listen - -
If we'd had 400K flying citizens on the alert in the fall of 2001, would things have turned out differently? Would it have acted as a deterrent? No way to tell. But I can guarantee that the Bush approach of PUNISHING citizens who dare to help with defense is, shall we say, counterproductive. No, we shall say idiotic and suicidal. ¶ 11:27 AM
