New York and Colorado. Terrorist links and now our rail system!?! I'm scared to death!?! As a commuter its bad enough I have to look over my shoulder contemplating a rapist, robber, murderer but now I have to fear a back pack too? WTF????
I enjoy reading on the train, laughing with my friends, having the occassional beer and enjoying the gossip commuting has to offer! Sacred times for some, especially me!
Now if someone I don't know sits next to me, shoves his/her back pack onto the overhead rail, turns to look at me and say hello, do I spray him/her with mace or run away to another seat? Feelin safe Kathleen would have shut her book and struck up a conversation.....
I know people will blog just keep on keepin on don't fear and trust in our society; but with finding these people within our country...sleepers waiting to awake....how safe are we really? I ponder this today...
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Josuha
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Sep 22 @ 5:21PM
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Calm down.
You scare to easy.
Your upsetting the children.
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CHARLIgurl1
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Sep 22 @ 5:52PM
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It is very scary.
I remember this.. the London train bombings.
>>London train bombings<<
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dizzydoll
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Sep 22 @ 6:21PM
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Please dont focus on those things, you will be safe... your guides look after you. If you look fearful, you attract the pepetrator. If you loose faith, you attract apprehension. Just know you are going to be safe and you will. 
The did a survey once, they asked a group of women who had been raped.. if the fear of rape had ever crossed their minds before it happened to them. The results of that test: In every case those women had considered being raped beforehand. 
Your mind is very powerful, be careful what you think 
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Mustage
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Sep 22 @ 6:30PM
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Have know fear, after Obama lets all the CIA information out, we will all be safe!!!! 
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kathleen60601
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Sep 22 @ 6:31PM
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Thanks Joshua...but I believe its not scaring the children just making them aware...remember they are our future and by the looks of things, this war really won't be over for a long time.....thanks for the post.
Charligurl thank you for the London Train link.....glad its attached to my post....
This is truly a real and scary matter.....I appreciate all the feedback I am getting...Thank you!!!
Have a great Evening!
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kathleen60601
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Sep 22 @ 6:33PM
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Hey that is a combo news event...I heard about Obama...wow...and everyone wonders why I fear so much!!!!!! Thanks for the imput Mustage!
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travelwoman
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Sep 22 @ 7:13PM
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Unfortunately, one gets used to it.
I remember in the early 80's, I was working for a big corporation in Geneva, Switzerland. I was the supervisor of the shipping department.
There were bomb threats...
Since not long before, terrorists had exploded a bomb in the busy railroad station in Geneva, management took it seriously.
We had to evacuate several times...
But after about 3 times evacuating over several weeks, and so many lost work hours, management chose to NOT evacuate anymore for any new bomb threats.
Since my department did the receiving of all mail and parcels, too, my people and I knew when there was a new threat.... but we were not allowed to leave and were not allowed to talk about it.
In the end, we "just" got "used" to it....
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gunn12fan
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Sep 22 @ 8:05PM
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Relax they have them behind bar's
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Fr8rain
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Sep 22 @ 10:05PM
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Won't be a very pleasant ride for anyone if you run around spraying everyone who has a backpack with mace.
They'd probably think you were the terrorist.
Besides, Obamaidiot is looking out for your welfare don't ya know? 
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kathleen60601
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Sep 23 @ 7:38AM
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Good call...but i was being comical with the mace thing. This is a very serious issue for me, well for all of us! Thanks for the post!
BTW...I voted HILARY!!!!!!!!!!!
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oct_cat
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Sep 23 @ 8:07AM
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There's more of a chance of being robbed in the workplace (been there, done that, no fun) or on the street in Chicago than meeting up with a terrorist. Just stay away from areas surrounding Cabrini Green & Robert Taylor, especially at night. Or do like I did & move to a smaller city 
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kathleen60601
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Sep 23 @ 8:11AM
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Funny thing is I was robbed at the work place and in my own home state...well not funny...but been there done that too....
It just sucks...relying on public transportation to get from state to state or city to city or area to area and everyday, in the back of your mind, there is a hidden fear....Everyday.....now that just about bites!!!!!!
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Roverboy
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Sep 24 @ 1:24PM
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Kathleen,
it doesn't matter if you're on a bus or in your own car: you could be sitting at a red light, and the bus next to you can blow up!  It happened to a friend of mine that was visiting Cairo on business (she sold Egyptian art in Las Vegas: she was an older woman from Israel, so she was used to it). She was okay - but a bit hard of hearing after that. The Twin Towers were hit with passenger jets, and when they came down, smaller buildings around them also came down because of the falling debris.
You also have to consider what could be a target - and to whom?
Pan Am was a target to terrorists, not solely because it was an American company, but because it was the oldest internationally known airline based in the U.S., and so, it was known the world over - nevermind that by the end of their existance they were but a shell of their former self (that company was literally hemorraging money during its last 15 years...their planes were literally falling apart, and it was only a matter of time before they ceased operations). Hitting Pan Am would still make international front pages, which it did on several occasions - like, when their ticket counter at the old Terminal 2 at LAX was blown up - long before Lockerbie. If Northwest Airlines, Braniff, PSA, Air Cal, or Hughes Air West were hit, the headlines wouldn't have been nearly as big.
I doubt that, unless it's a major internationally known corporation that's based in Denver that you're working for, that you have anything to worry about.
With security measures in place now, the chances of it happening again are 1 in a gazillion...provided the human element doesn't rear its ugly had again...(which is to blame for the Twin Towers). All it takes, is for one person in the right job that says "Naw - they wouldn't do that...".
The biggest problem, is that after the Cold War ended, the infrastructure that was in place to watch out for Soviet activity that would suggest such attacks, was dismantled (there were alledged known "sleeper cells" of Soviet agents/military in the states at the time, mostly living in the midwest states), under the reasoning that "We don't need it anymore - the world is a happy place now". (kind of akin to Obama deciding to kill off the F-22 program...)
See - one of the side-effects of the Cold War, was that many groups/countries that otherwise would have taken on such attacks couldn't, simply because the USA had too many eyes on them, and the Soviet Union had too many "leashes" on them. When the Soviet Union collapsed, those leashes were removed, and our eyes were closed.
When I was in the Air Force (I got out over 20 years ago), we constantly kept an eye on North Korea, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, as well as many other potential hotbeds of activity. We stopped paying attention to those places for too long of a while, and we took our eyes almost completely off of terrorist orginizations, and focused on helping the new Russia come into being during the '90's. There were threats, but some people didn't take them seriously...they do now.
After getting out of the Air Force, I went to work for a foreign-based airline, and we got bomb-threats almost on a daily basis back on the late '80's/early '90's: there was even a one week period where we had threats every single day!
The best you can do, is to observe the goings-on around you: if anything in the daily routine of things suddenly seems odd, that's when you start really paying attention. That said, you have to be very very careful NOT to assume that the one new person you see, is a terrorist.
What "chaps my hide", is that we aren't keeping as close of an eye on the situation in Mexico as we should: if the drug cartels sieze control of that country, we're going to have a very very big problem.
Those who ignore history, are destined to re-live it.
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kathleen60601
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Sep 24 @ 8:22PM
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wow...thanks for enlightening me Roberboy and putting my mind a little bit more at rest...I work in Chicago so this scares the daylights out of me, but I agree that we all should keep our eyes open...be vigilant....Your an awesome writer and thanks for your analogy...Kathleen
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Roverboy
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Sep 25 @ 8:05AM
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Kathleen,
no problem.
I can't see anybody setting off a bomb at Navy Pier, unless they got deathly ill at the Billygoat Cafe... 
Okay...I think I've been without sleep for long enough!
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