'04: 'Shipping is a global industry; terrorism is a global problem!'

[Bluebear]

At least that is what Tom Ridge warned us when it suited his monkey leader.....

For instance, shortly after I began serving as the President’s Homeland Security Advisor, I boarded a ship in New Orleans Harbor. The vessel was registered in Singapore; the crew was from India; the cargo was American grain, on its way to Japan!

And that is just the beginning. Nine million containers arrive on those ships into our Nation’s 361 seaports every year – more than 30 percent of them here in Los Angeles and Long Beach. Once they reach shore, they are stacked and stored in facilities like this…then carried on trains and trucks across the country…and their contents are delivered to warehouses and waiting customers…all across the country.

The story doesn’t end with the ships themselves. To this picture add the critical infrastructure at and around our ports – plants, refineries, warehouses, stockyards and, of course, nearby port communities. Shipping is a global industry; terrorism is a global problem; and our collective security requires a global solution.

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