The Mission of EndingTerrorism.com

The attacks on September 11, 2001 sent a clear message to all Americans: Terrorists are intent on destroying the United States. They will use the tools of our society as weapons to kill thousands of people and cause billions of dollars in damage. The level of hatred displayed on September 11 makes things very clear. It is not a matter of "if" the terrorists will attack again, but when.

Any terrorist looking at this country sees an ocean of targets -- targets so rich, so easy to access, so simple to coordinate, that it is frightening. Any intelligent terrorist, with just a handful of people, can see ways to fit these targets together into a strategy that could, at the present time, bring this country to its knees. See the Scenarios page for details. The United States is in a very vulnerable position at the moment.

In order to stop terrorism, we need complete knowledge of what terrorists can do and how they can do it. Then we need to eliminate the threats. EndingTerrorism.com is a focal point for this process:

  • Mission 1 -- Educate politicians, public officials, corporate leaders, journalists and the public by creating a comprehensive database of known terrorist scenarios. Many of these scenarios are obvious to the casual observer. Many others have been popularized in books and movies. Others are discussed quietly and need to be publicized so that they can be prevented. EndingTerrorism.com collects all of them together in one place, so that we can see the entire scope of the problem.

  • Mission 2 -- Expose holes in the current system. At this moment, the United States is extremely vulnerable to another attack. This vulnerability exists, in large part, because we have designed our world on the assumption that terrorists do not exist. That is now an invalid assumption, and we need to correct things. The only way to prevent a truly horrific disaster is to expose the holes in our defenses and apply public pressure to fix them quickly.

  • Mission 3 -- Avoid myopia. Right now we are expending tremendous resources to, for example, secure airports, while other much larger threats remain open and vulnerable. Only by knowing all of the threats can we create a coordinated and balanced response.

  • Mission 4 -- Broaden the definition of terrorism so that we solve the whole problem. At this moment there are terrorists running freely among us. They are gang members, arsonists, burglars, drug dealers. Their combined effects on this nation are significant and extremely destructive. When we discuss "eliminating terrorism", we should include all terrorists, foreign and domestic.

  • Mission 5 -- Publicize solutions. September 11 should not have happened, and we can do a tremendous amount to reduce the threat of new attacks in the future. However, the solution will involve an investment of time and money, as well as a change of mindset on several different fronts. Broad public knowledge of the solutions makes it much easier to implement them.

  • Mission 6 - Encourage action. What can you, as one person, do today to help prevent terrorism? Quite a bit, because only with massive public pressure will these problems get solved:
    • Please read the terrorist scenarios and think about what they mean to you personally, your family and our society. This collection of scenarios will make you extremely uncomfortable because many of them are so easy and so destructive. Also read the Solutions page so that you can see how to end these threats.
    • Tell your collegues, friends and neighbors about EndingTerrorism.com.
    • Bring these problems to the attention of public officials and corporate leaders and demand that we solve these problems. Our fuel system should not be this vulnerable. Nor our power grid. Nor our nuclear plants.
    • Bring these problems to the attention of the media in your area (write letters to the editor of the newspaper, call TV stations). We should not be this vulnerable today, when we know that the next attack is inevitable.
    • Become non-complacent yourself. Become smart. Become active.
    • Add your ideas to the forums.
    • Support new laws that will protect us from these scenarios.
    • Support military action overseas.
    • Support the minor price increases at home that will be required in things like postage, gasoline, electricity, etc. to pay for protecting our lives and livelihood.

On Friday, February 1, 2002, on the front page of the morning newspaper, there was an article entitled, "Fresh Threats of Terror Loom":
    WASHINGTON - Officials stepped up warnings Thursday of a potential new terrorist attack on the United States, possibly against a nuclear power plant or water facility, or involving nuclear weapons.
"New?" Nuclear plants and water facilities have been wide-open targets for decades. We have done nothing to close these security holes, but that does not make them new. We would very much like to ignore these holes, but now they stare us in the face on a daily basis.

If officials are just figuring out that water facilities are "potential, new" targets on February 1, 2002, four months after September 11, then we have a major problem. It is time to: a) document our current vulnerabilities in a comprehensive database so that the officials see the full scope of the problem, and b) start applying pressure on those officials to bring our level of vulnerability down to a manageable level.

At that point, and only at that point, can we begin to live our lives in peace and freedom.


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