From today’s Channel3000 headline:
Some Communities Sign Up for Terrorism Insurance
WEST BARABOO, Wis. – Communities across the country and some in Wisconsin have signed up for domestic terrorism insurance.
Local leaders said that that while the likelihood of a terrorist attack is low, it’s still an insurance policy that makes sense.
West Baraboo trustee Brucer Meyer said that for $87 a year, the community is protected against many scenarios, such as vandalism of the water tower or contamination of the water supply.
I don’t know what is more absurd, the idea that vandalism is considered to be domestic terrorism, or that the insurance only costs $87/year. As an aside, one might say that we have already paid for terrorism insurance by way of establishing the disgusting boondoggle called the Department of Homeland Security. Of course, I’m not advocating that we use DHS to prevent teens from defacing water towers. But if we’re going to dump any damn thing into the rubric of le terrorisme national, then I guess we should be prepared for the coming wave of terrorist litterers, terrorist non-recyclers and terrorist public urinators.
Just as Ned Flanders “doesn’t believe in insurance, he considers it a form of gambling” we can be certain that in the case of terrorism insurance, the house has already won.
