September 15, 2003
#414 - Threat Inflation

From comments by Tom Ridge to the Christian Science Monitor:

... the fact is that our level of security at yellow today is better than it was a year ago, and our level of security at yellow today will be better a year from now. So the threshold to go from yellow to orange will be higher. That does make a difference.

So if we’ve got this straight - and frankly we’re not sure we do, or if we’re even supposed to - as the level of security improves, we shouldn’t expect the threat advisory to drop to blue ("guarded", for those of you who don’t have it memorized), or even green ("low"), but rather to stay at yellow, albeit a safer yellow?

You’d almost think the Bush administration has a vested interest in keeping us afraid.

Comments

So because we're staying at yellow, we shouldn't re-elect Bush. What a brilliant hypothesis.

Posted by: Anon on September 16, 2003 11:17 AM

We never elected Bush in the first place.

Don't you just love chicken shits that post anonymously?

Your bathtub is more dangerous to you than terrorists. This is a simple fact. Too bad the right wing doesn't function logically.

Posted by: Alan Evil on September 22, 2003 12:59 PM

Bush has documents proving his eligability for the National Guard. The rest of the nation has documents proving that Al Gore won the election. They are called ballots. Who wants a President that served 9 out of 124 required reserve days???

Posted by: Chuck Robinson on March 9, 2004 06:24 PM