Orange Alert

[richardf8]

It'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.

Comments

[morgan1.livejournal.com]

This is pretty much exactly what I thought when I heard we had a new alert. We just have to have one during Christmas so that we can be aware that even during our most fuzzy-wuzzy holiday season, the baddies are out there and gunning for us, and only John Ashcroft peeping into our bedrooms stands between us and certain destruction.

[lordrunningclam.livejournal.com]

I think the whole colored alert system was dreamed up by some guy who watched too much Star Trek. Basically, the gov should be vigilant ALL of the time, that's what we're paying them for. I'm still waiting for my tax refund because they were asleep at the wheel on 9/11/01.

There is also a limit to everything, the recent reports of hazing foriegn journalists at airports are distubing and embarassing. The whole thing seems quite arbitrary, which is part of the problem all along.

The only purpose the alert system serves is to stir up public anxiety.