Несколько мыслей по поводу прошлогодних терактов, слишком разрозненных,...

A few thoughts about last year’s attacks, too scattered to bind together, too dangerous to bind hastily. I don’t want to talk about the involvement of special services in terrorist attacks - it’s no longer clear what to think and who to believe, whether to consider the “Ryazan teachings” an unsuccessful attempt at a terrorist attack or an unsuccessful attempt to report for a prevented attack. But anyway.

(*) Acts of terrorism are usually carried out in order to intimidate the enemy, to force them to make a decision favorable to terrorists - the key is precisely the goal. For example, in Israel, it is almost always reported which organization has assumed responsibility for an act of terrorism, the organization’s task is clear. About the latest Russian terrorist attacks, such information is not noticeable. The authorities traditionally attribute the “Caucasian trace” to what is happening, they even find some organizers, but not organizations, let alone their goals.

(*) "Disparate small groups" - for the second decade, all acts of violence associated with the Caucasus, at the official level, are accompanied by just such a characteristic of the organizers. In the context of the previous thought, it seems that groups of psychos are working there, a little more organized by Breivik, but much less meaningful.

(*) In fact, information about the objectives of the attacks sounds - from official sources, not from terrorists - to "destabilize the situation in the country." Stability is the highest value, almost a national idea. Rather, a stronghold of the irremovability of power, of course. Actually, the same goal is attributed to the opposition, the Americans and other enemies, external and internal. The next step is to generally say that the West arranged the attack, and it seems that someone has already done it. Everyone who wants to change something, to somehow destabilize this swamp, is automatically equated with a terrorist. How convenient.

(*) Terror is fear. If the task of terrorists is to frighten the population, then it has been achieved in full, but exclusively with the assistance of the authorities. For what was the match held in besieged Leningrad? To show that the besieged city lives an ordinary life. The call not to change one’s life because of terrorist attacks often sounds in Israel. What about us? We’ll set up more security checkpoints, build more fences, write down the president’s extraordinary New Year’s greetings right from the wheels, what else? Introduce curfew, passport regime? Perfectly. Fear people. Everyone should feel in their own skin how everything is turbulent in the country.

(*) It always surprised why, after the terrorist attack, transfer all the services responsible for security to the enhanced mode. It’s too late! Alas, not too late. But it’s useless. Everything is useless - from metal detectors to calling employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs forces for overtime. Even in this situation they blinked.

(*) Come by train at rush hour to Pushkin or to Old Peterhof and try to get out legally. NWPC meets its dear and beloved passengers with a turnstile ruler with a bandwidth that does not allow the queue to resolve in five minutes. Do you understand what will happen if a suicide bomber explodes in this line? Dozens of corpses. Dozens of those who could have long been in the city, if not for the barrier. And do not "la-la" about the metal detectors at the station. Do they exist in the Baltic, but at intermediate stations? And who generally pays attention to this chronically squeaking framework? And if you inspect everyone, this will create a huge queue - this is found, for example, when controlling at the entrance to Pulkovo Airport. So the question is - didn’t accidentally blow up the search line in Volgograd? We need to deal with crowds - with crowded transport, with queues, with terminals clogged to failure - with inadequate infrastructure, with limited bandwidth of its elements. Fight, not create a target for terrorists. Now even the direct passage from the metro to the Baltic Station is closed, you need to go around the street.

(*) I really do not believe that all these "measures" make the country safer. Inconvenient - yes. More intense - yes. It is even more profitable for someone - how much money has been "spent" on the construction of all these inspection points, how many private security companies have received orders, how many spurious jobs have been created? I don’t believe in security even without a terrorist attack carried out at a time when all services were on heavy duty. How many messages were there to make the systems work? To detain a shahid with a bomb, so that he would stand trial? Or at least destroyed? To go to the organization, go to the goal? I am sure that the same "selective searches" in the metro are carried out according to plan - so many goals a day. They wanted to watch me once - there was a case on the Admiralteyskaya, I turned around, left and entered on Nevsky. Free. No one raised the alarm. And not only firms receive dividends - in the traditional “total enemy and internal enemy” scheme, the electorate rallies around you know who, although, on the contrary, there should be an increase in calls for the resignation of a government engaged in witch-hunting, but not able to neither protect the population nor establish a normal life.

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