but everything you are complaining about is actually the plan, once 20% of the population are informers then any pretence of democracy can curl up in the corner and die.
People act and talk like there is a "plan" Let me assure you, having been accused of having many "plans" over my life, at no time was that ever true!!
It was when no-one suspected that I actually had a plan. Not that they went that well either...
And for the 20% informers, we've seen how well that worked in East Germany, the worker's paradise.
Nononononoooooo....Jeese my friend, you don't understand. In W's world we're ALL just the hired help. We're supposed to do as we're told and not be uppity about it.
So, the dynamics that first responders work with don't matter. You're to shut up and do as your told.
Yeah, this is going to turn out exactly has W envisioned....NOT.
(Snark aside, this is how I understand Bush--we're all to work for him, not the other way around).
Seriously Jesse are you sending the contents of this blog onto your DHS masters?
are you?
are you?!?!?
W is all about first responders doing their job, just look at 9/11, Katrina, and the recent SoCal fires.
Don't worry, this is all just training for when they send all first responders to Iraq/Iran.
It's not about "valuing" us little people, it is about putting their jackbooted feet squarely on our necks.
Those who fail to learn the lessons of history etc.
ceabaird:
Nice analogy. We are the STASI ...
... or at least, the IMs -- Inoffizielle Mitarbeiter (Unofficial Collaborators).
Welcome to the 21st Century economy: We all take turns watching each other.
Shit. this stuff is so out of control. I am finding it hard not to just give up~
A few years ago, there was a proposal to change the lights on British ambulances from blue (the same colour as on police cars) to green. The reason was that ambulances and their crews were being attacked by yobs who liked to throw stones at police cars and were too thick to tell ambulances and police vans apart.
Gag --
Yeah, precisely.
All medic rigs and fire rigs in the US now are mostly the YELLOW-GREEN or WHITE-RED, instead of the dark-blue or all white which most cop cars are.
The color of emergency lights is mostly set by law, but the color of the rigs is designed for maximum visibility, and the YELLOW-GREEN color has been shown repeatedly in studies, to have by far the most visibility both to peripheral and primary vision, both day and night.
Back when I was first medicing (and even before that, when I was an EMT and an Army EMT/medic), people didn't know nearly as much about lighting and visibility.
When we did our field internship as paramedic interns down in Houston, we wore dark blue jumpsuits, but had bright orange reflective tape around the wrists, ankles, waist, and the word PARAMEDIC in a semi-circle all caps on the back.
People in Houston thought we were nuts. But when you're standing on the freeway with cars and semis blasting past the wreck or your rig at 70, 2 feet from where you are, I'm all for as much visibility as you can get.
Furthermore, ANYTHING which distinguishes me from the police, is a very very good idea. I like the blue jumpsuit, because it covers up the blood really well, and has lots and lots of pockets. Today I'd probably go for a version designed to turn a knife or a needle stick. But high-visibility is the big thing for being a medic.
Oh -- and I'd want to be wired from head to waist with electronics today. Truly, I'm surprised no one is yet doing what cops routinely do -- recording every minute of every call on video/sound.
I would be if I was running a paramedic service. And I'd be compressing it and shipping it via cell phone to my base hospital, 911 central dispatch, and the service provider responsible for the actual hiring/firing of the paramedics & the ambulances.
It would be an invaluable training tool, and an opportunity for the docs to really get in early and increase survival rates.
It would be an invaluable training tool, and an opportunity for the docs to really get in early and increase survival rates.
Jeese, I know it's OT, but there's a real push for this sort of thing from forward-thinking medtech folks--giving medics portable ultrasounds and whatnot and beaming the images directly to the ER for trauma/surgical consult, etc. Not sure the necessary IT is widespread enough, tho.
Jesse,
The UK emergency services are big into high visibility these days. Even the police in London wear bright yellow jackets (except for specialist firearms officers, who go for the all-black SWAT look).
London ambulances are now painted a yellow shade which is intended to be the European Union standard colour for ambulances, along with yellow and green reflective panels on the sides (photo) and yellow and red reflective chevrons on the back (photo). The uniforms seem to be a dark green shirt and dark green trousers with a yellow high-visibility jacket.
As is probably inevitable these days, there is a blog by a London EMT.
The point of government for the elite is not to perform a service for the citizens, but to do the work of the elite. It never occurs to them that the government has anything better to do. Even the Reagan fuckers knew better than this.
This is a mini-version of the Justice Department bungle. I call it that because Bush couldn't pull of what he wanted (it was worse than a "bungle" for us, but it was still a net failure for Bush). The only thing saving the U.S. right now is the sheer incompetence of the Bush admin; they have the power, but they don't know the first thing about running a feudal manor, and they sure as hell don't know how to convert a democracy to straight feudalism.
I worked EMS in a large city for 12 years and the only 'war wound' I have to remember it by is a sore back.If you were assaulted as many times as you claim and have as many 'scars' as you maintain you must have been kind of a dick on scenes.And while I share your dislike of working accident scenes with fast moving traffic nearby,it was ALWAYS possible to position vehicles to keep traffic farther than 2 feet away.
Frankly,you remind me of the type we somewhat disdainfully referred to as a 'junior coder',the guy who had to scan all of the emergency bands,had too many bells and whistles on his belt,and just never stopped enthusing about 'the bad one'and trying to impress 'civilians' with their war stories.Working with junior coders was like having to tolerate a yapping chihuaha.
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