Should NW Indiana Worry About A Perfect Day Terror Scenario?

CNN Headline News and radio talk show host Glenn Beck warns that terrorists might be planning attacks on elementary and middle schools around the United States in what he calls a "Perfect Day" terror scenario.

Should Northwest Indiana residents be worried about their children being targets? Is Glenn Beck crying wolf or should we be reviewing our school security plans to make sure our children are as safe as they can be while in class?

Says Glenn Beck:

This is really coming from hard evidence that our Government really does not want us to know per se. I mean, they've been alerting people, but they're been doing cryptically because they don't want widespread panic.

Writes Glenn Beck about the Perfect Day scenario:

It's the day that Americans are killed on an unprecedented scale. It's the day that no one, not even our children sitting in their classrooms at school, are safe. It's the day that seemingly isolated incidents all converge into the greatest threat this country has ever experienced or imagined. It's the day that the Islamist jihad against the West begins in earnest. It's "The Perfect Day" - and it's only perfect if you're a terrorist.

Hoping to warn people of the danger, Glenn Beck has been mailing out warnings and suggestions to his listeners advising what they should do and how they should talk to their local school and police officials.

In one of the emails, Glenn Beck has a piece written by author of Terror at Breslan -- John Guiduck -- who says the Perfect Day scenario would likely involve a mass hostage situation -- maybe at a school a la the hostage crisis at Beslan, Russia.

The more preferred, but more difficult to accomplish, attack is the "Mass Hostage Siege." Terrorists know that when they take hundreds of innocent people hostage and hold them for days they are really holding an entire nation hostage. By doing that they attract the attention of the news media, which helps them to accomplish their real goal, which is to spread terror as far and as wide as possible. It's the psychological impact that's most important, and nothing is better at promoting that than a Mass Hostage Siege, especially one that involves innocent children.

Pretty scary stuff, but considering what the evildoers -- both foreign and domestic -- are willing to do, it isn't unthinkable.

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