I wonder why? From Reuters, whose leftist spin on the story implies we should shut off funding to Homeland Security to fight the real terrorists, which are tapeworms:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Roundworms may infect close to a quarter of inner city black children, tapeworms are the leading cause of seizures among U.S. Hispanics and other parasitic diseases associated with poor countries are also affecting Americans, a U.S. expert said on Tuesday.

Recent studies show many of the poorest Americans living in the United States carry some of the same parasitic infections that affect the poor in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, said Dr. Peter Hotez, a tropical disease expert at George Washington University and editor-in-chief of the Public Library of Science journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases.

Writing in the journal, Hotez said these parasitic infections had been ignored by most health experts in the United States.

“I feel strongly that this is such an important health issue and yet because it only affects the poor it has been ignored,” Hotez said via e-mail.

He said the United States spent hundreds of millions of dollars to defend against bio-terrorism threats like anthrax or smallpox or avian flu, which were more a theoretical concern than a real threat at present.

“And yet we have a devastating parasitic disease burden among the American poor, right under our nose,” Hotez said.

He noted a recent study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, presented in November, found that almost 14 percent of the U.S. population is infected with Toxocara roundworms, which dogs and cats can pass to people.

“Urban playgrounds in the United States have recently been shown to be a particularly rich source of Toxocara eggs and inner-city children are at high risk of acquiring the infection,” Hotez wrote, adding that this might be partly behind the rise in asthma cases in the country. Up to 23 percent of urban black children may be infected, he said.

“Because of its possible links to asthma, it would be important to determine whether covert toxocariasis is a basis for the rise of asthma among inner-city children in the northeastern United States,” he added.

The article goes on to quote a doctor, in full commissariat mode, demanding that we “erase health disparities” in evil America. It’s funny though, I grew up in a predominantly Black inner city neighborhood in an a very large all Black extended family and neither I nor any of the multitude of cousins I grew up with were infested with parasites.

I wonder what could possibly be the difference between growing up in a Black neighborhood in the 1970’s and growing up in one now?

From The National Terror Alert website:

Police in Metro Vancouver have had their hands full for years trying, mostly unsuccessfully, to control gang-related violence and killings that make Vancouver look like Chicago in the Al Capone era.

Last week, they found something they hadn’t seen before – street vehicles outfitted with armour, surveillance cameras and bulletproof glass.

Police forces in the city have had little success in arresting and charging people involved in the dozens of murders in the past several years.

And it appears they won’t have any greater success in curbing these fortified vehicles.

It’s not illegal to outfit your vehicle with bulletproof glass or surround it with armour as long as it’s inspected and passes safety regulations and Insurance Corp. of B.C. licensing requirements.

“That’s pretty much what we’re left with from what I can see at this point,” said Sgt. Shinder Kirk, a member of the Abbotsford police department and the spokesman for the Integrated Gang Task Force.

“Our enforcement opportunities with respect to this issue lie strictly with the motor vehicle regulations that prohibit this type of modification.”

The anti-gang unit, set up in November after a rash of gang-related murders, has begun to make more traffic checks as well as frequent the bars and nightclubs where police say gang members hang out.

Recently, the unit seized seven guns, body armour and two vehicles equipped with bullet-proof glass, armour plating and high-tech surveillance cameras.

[…]

Last month, police stopped a luxury SUV and found the vehicle had been fitted with bullet-proof windows and it also had a secondary rear gate that police described as having “ballistic integrity.”

The report is unsourced, and contains a lot of hinting by Canadian police that “there ought to be a law, eh” which makes me suspect the report is overblown, but it is something to think about.

If bulletproof accessories are cheap and affordable it isn’t just gangs that could use them, but terrorists who want a few extra minutes of mayhem for a suicide attack on hard targets like police stations will find them especially useful.