Here the event around which the circumstance of our universe pivoted was the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001. We live in a time of great concentrations of people and resources, and ever enhancing means of destruction. But we also have at our disposal ever improving means of preventing or mitigating destruction.
The law is a way of providing ourselves constraints that are overcome, demanding the employment of our cleverness. The constraint we want to impose upon ourselves is the same in its essence: our major commercial and public buildings and institutions shall be safe from attack or any kind of calamitous intrusion, such as crime, natural disaster, or accident. But the constraint must be honed anew for the 21st century. Not only because we are more vulnerable but because we are more capable.
Hurricane Katrina: more people died in the aftermath, in the failed relief efforts, and because of the failing infrastructure. We hear that our infrastructure is aging. This case is about our infrastructure and our disaster planning.
