Orange Alert
Dec. 23rd, 2003 08:26 pmIt's become a new holiday tradition. Every year the terror alert goes from yellow to orange right after the last weekend of Christmas shopping (wouldn't want to spook consumers) and the President and Security Czar come on the radio to let us know that we are free to go about our daily business, shop, party etc, whilst they, our lords and protectors, defend us from unimaginable horrors hinted at in "chatter" they are apparently constantly monitoring.
I don't know about you, but I'm just a little spooked by the annual construction of a threat against which our administration, playing the role of the good father, assures us it is protecting us. What is the purpose of this new ritual? To send us the message that if George, John, and Tom weren't there to protect us we would all be killed by terrorists while we open our presents? And that if we aren't we owe it to the vigilance of Our Great Leader? That this Terrorist Attack Free Christmas is brought to you by your friends at the Department of Homeland Security?
Forgive me, but it seems to me that when we allow our Government's vigilance to supplant our own, the terrorists have won.
I don't know about you, but I'm just a little spooked by the annual construction of a threat against which our administration, playing the role of the good father, assures us it is protecting us. What is the purpose of this new ritual? To send us the message that if George, John, and Tom weren't there to protect us we would all be killed by terrorists while we open our presents? And that if we aren't we owe it to the vigilance of Our Great Leader? That this Terrorist Attack Free Christmas is brought to you by your friends at the Department of Homeland Security?
Forgive me, but it seems to me that when we allow our Government's vigilance to supplant our own, the terrorists have won.