[EAS] Worker's side of the story

[John Willkie]

So, the lowly state employee thought his job required sending out actual alerts even in the case of receiving and not fully understanding messages with ambiguous formatting and content?

These guys seem to being badly drilled to the point where they know everything and understand nothing.  The governor of Hawaii isn't of the same party as the president of the US?

How many days did this event occur after Governor Ige called on Trump to CONFRONT North Korea to 'prevent' a crisis (a crisis of almost 70 years) with North Korea on Jan 22?  Yes, the language is absurd, another attempt to be a 'militant moderate.' 

His money quote: he wanted "warning and sirens can become a thing of the past."  He's the person who - possibly for political reasons - made warnings (including false warnings) very much a thing of the present in Hawaii.

Governors thinking they have a say stronger than any other citizen in foreign affairs -- priceless, plus the cost of one false alarm.  

The state had the unilateral ability to create false alarms, but not the unilateral ability to cancel false alarms.  Now, citizens are more likely to be bothered by tests and drills, and are less likely to immediately act in the remotely possible situation of an ICBM headed towards Pearl.    

>From 'leader' to twit-bound laughingstock in 38 terrifying minutes.

It is easy to figure out that states without the ability themselves to detect incoming missiles to a fare-the-well have no reason to initiate, and should have no ability to notify citizens of a missile threat. Is it an alert if the message is fourth-hand? 

John

if the message and formatting wasn't what he experienced in training 
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Worker opens up after sending false missile alert: 'I did what I was trained to do'

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