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Tight as a Drum: APEC security may overwhelm Itself
by Mel Bourne Thursday, Aug 23 2007, 9:53pm
international / miscellaneous / commentary

Professionals are expressing concern at Sydney’s over zealous approach to APEC security. Word has it that protesters and associated groups have been briefed to make their most dynamic ‘statement’ during a planned diversionary tactic guaranteed to trigger a cacophony of responses from authorities, local and international!

Well known to anarchists is the effectiveness of ‘perversity’ of tactics or cooperative chaos. Apparently this strategy allows a core group to execute their principal attack strategy. Furthermore, it allows dislocated and dissociated groups a window of OPPORTUNITY to make their own particular ‘statements’ or initiate a spontaneous move on a target!

A principal tenet of the Art is to act when opportunity presents itself; flexibility and spontaneity always confuse an enemy. It should never be forgotten that the enemy is ‘jailed’ by their own discipline and response routines. The very nature of State security is INFLEXIBILITY and (over-rehearsed) disciplined response -- that my dear Alice is their Achilles heel!

If all goes according to unplanned plans, international and local security will be shooting each other while state and federal police have their hands full maiming and brutalising protesting school children and ‘ferals.’

The well known expression, “you never know our luck in a big city,” is based on the principle that cities are BIG, DYNAMIC, environments WHERE ANYTHING CAN AND IS LIKELY TO HAPPEN; and that my dear hatter makes security an imprecise science of degrees or percentages. Securing a major city, especially an old penal settlement like Sydney, is frankly impossible. Sydney actually lends itself to potential attackers, black flag ops, and/or partridges in pear trees!

Never forget the authorities are locked into their own response routines; many great battles in history were won by those who exploited an opportunity when it presented itself. Also, rather than wait for an opportunity it is better to create your own!

Cup of tea, anyone?

[The author wishes to dissociate from the text. However, if there’s a film contract and a ‘monster truck’ in it, the situation could be reviewed.]

Addendum:
Special note for the “anti-terrorist squad” who usually forget to take their dicks out when pissing; look up the difference between illustration and instruction. A short course in genre wouldn’t go astray either!

If you fail to see it, cover it, or prepare for it, all your preparations amount to NOTHING!

“I believe what I said yesterday. I don't know what I said, but I know what I think, and, well, I assume it's what I said.” -- Donald Rumsfeld

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