"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
NY Ramps up Security for Times Square Bash
"' Our helicopters will be up in the air and checking the 200-block area around Times Square,' Kelly told the CNN television network on Friday.'Everyone that enters the area will have to go through a magnetometry check.' Horse-mounted police officers, bomb-sniffing dogs and police patrol boats are also part of a security deployment to ensure New Year's Eve passes off without a hitch. 'We have heavy weapons response teams that are in, you know, appropriate locations,' Kelly said."
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