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What a shame....	by: Ptah
that a public official would immediately fixate on the idea of a terrorist threat to have taken down this rather minor public website. If it had been terrorists I should wonder what they may have had to gain by doing this in the first place? Perhaps citizen's ability to see how far behind they were on inland revenue would have been decreased? By leaping to conclusions this person has seriously embarassed himself to the public. A little patience should have been shown, and perhaps a call first to the city IT person and maybe the service provider before calling a company that provides operating systems (too bad the OS in question was not M$ WindBlows - they would have charged him $3.95 per minute to listen and of course done nothing for him). The American people are understandably on edge after 911, however, as a British expat living in the states it is sometimes odd to see gross over-reaction in US government circles to the mere threat of terrorism. Having grown up in the UK the threat of IRA terrorism was with my mates and myself everyday. It became something you lived with and accepted to a degree. I believe in time the US people, and especially the government, will adjust to this new and more dangerous world they now face. To remain calm and keep one's wits during a crisis is key. To "go off the deep end" and leap to conclusions causes uneeded problems for everyone.