Ad Hoc Get-Togethers

[Robert Dabkowski]

... was MUCH improved before I even left the Base, you can be sure.

Geoff, I am greatly 'hurt' that you think me to be so careless as to openly post any STILL sensitive security information on such a widely read public forum as this one is.

Censorship is an ugly thing, in any form. Especially in a supposedly free and democratic society such as we claim to have here in Canada.

Better to be 'safe than sorry', I guess, but ... your actions will discourage me from posting anything else even remotely interesting here, again. What's that old expression, "If you're not a part of the solution then you ARE a part of the problem" ?

Please be assured that BEFORE I left the confines of Base Borden yesterday I had already turned over a copy of my fresh video camera (lack of) security 'report' to the Base HQ office. And then after playing back said 1 hour tape for all interested officials at hand (most of whom spent much time studying the size of my truck parked just 8' away outside of the same conference room windows), took yet another truck drive (followed at a discrete distance by two cars full of MPs/Base command staff) to physically demonstrate all of my (lack of) security concerns.

Same results as during my first 1 hour drive-thru (notice please that I didn't type "drive-by" although it could easily have been), no security at all. Anywhere.

Sidearm equipped guard types (in groups) were already being posted at several (now closed) internal gates and barrier 10 ton trucks were being moved into blocking positions at several other areas as I left the Base for the return drive to Toronto.

To their credit, Base staff did NOT over-react nor close off museum access to the general public. Their response was appropriate, even if grossly too late.

The appearance was similar to that produced by poking a stick into an active bee hive. Bodies running eveywhere, at great speed, to only some limited apparent purpose. But the security situation got MUCH better, real FAST. They even put 2 (30 year old) choppers in the air although one landed, in a base parking lot, about ten minutes later and quickly shutdown right then & there.

I'm told that my truck seat video tape 'tour' (with my rather sarcastic voice-over commentary) will probably be used as a new 'what-if' training aid/example for all future security types posted to Borden.

And I'll bet that somebody there, justifiably, has their 'butt in a sling' this morning. It was a disgraceful episode.

Might just be 'fun' to try the same thing, but after dark, in a few weeks from now ? Just to see if the lads are all still 'awake' to the real threat. All on public highways, of course.

If a military training base can be so wide open, I can only imagine how exposed our entire civilian infrastructure networks must be.

Time to buy a generator and stock up on MREs, I guess.