Security and Anxiety in Vancouver
By Jonathon Narvey on June 3, 2006 - 1:59pm
If we're fighting them over there so that we don't have to fight them here, then it looks like we're screwed no matter what we do.
It seems the Security and Anxiety seminar at UBC's Living the Global City series attended by UV's own Richard Eriksson was pretty timely.
Seventeen terrorism suspects inspired by Al Queda were rounded up in Toronto on Friday (check the summary here). The group had three tonnes of explosive materials and weapons components when the RCMP nabbed them.
The foiled plot could have been hatched just as easily here in Vancouver; actually, I had to check the headline twice just to make sure it wasn't.
While some bright minds in our city wonder at the danger of fetishizing security or argue over semantics (security from terror/auto accidents/hurricanes - in Vancouver?), it is good to know that our "urban warriors" have their eye on the real dangers in our midst. Hopefully, when our turn inevitably comes, we'll be ready.
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