Clashing Color Codes Controversy

[Gemini Cricket]

"The Bush administration periodically put the USA on high alert for terrorist attacks even though then-Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge argued there was only flimsy evidence to justify raising the threat level, Ridge now says."

Ridge Reveals Clashes on Alerts (http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-05-10-ridge-alerts_x.htm?POE=NEWISVA)

We're being led by fear. That's lame, but not surprising...

:eek:

[Nephythys]

Only if we are sheep- which I personally am not. I never gave a rats ass about the color code one way or the other.

[Name]

The individual is never a sheep, but the population as a whole, behaves and reacts as sheep.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Eh, not surprising. The whole color code thing is just like the bag check at Disneyland - BS to make some people feel better. Of course if those people thought about it a bit more...

[Gemini Cricket]

I guess the thing is there are people out there, present company excluded, who don't know they're sheep. I'm not a sheep, but we're being treated like sheep. "This color means everyone is to be afraid. Bah Ram Ewe!"
But keeping with that analogy, has the Dept of Homeland Sec ever heard of the story of 'The Boy Who Cried Wolf?' I mean, c'mon. Nobody trusts that system any more...

But, of course, no one will get blamed for this. It's just the dance we do in a post-9/11 world... Bleh.

[€uroMeinke]

I like the warning system - when the threat level increases, attendance at DL drops making it more fun for me and Osama.

[Gn2Dlnd]

With all due respect, I'm certainly not a sheep. But when the government decides to raise the threat level, it gives me pause. The news covers it like the second coming, and security guards start asking to look inside my coat. I know that it's bullsh*t, but it's hard to avoid being affected and made to feel a little more anxious.

I'd like to know how New Yorkers feel about this information. Colorado is a long way away from Ground Zero.

[Gemini Cricket]

I like the warning system - when the threat level increases, attendance at DL drops making it more fun for me and Osama.
I just had a weird image of you and Bin Laden in a teacup...
:D

[Nephythys]

With all due respect, I'm certainly not a sheep. But when the government decides to raise the threat level, it gives me pause. The news covers it like the second coming, and security guards start asking to look inside my coat. I know that it's bullsh*t, but it's hard to avoid being affected and made to feel a little more anxious.

I'd like to know how New Yorkers feel about this information. Colorado is a long way away from Ground Zero.


So somehow I am immune being here? Funny, I wish that bubble around CO actually kept bad people out.

Why is it, with people who seem to inately distrust the gov't, still seem to think it matters when they play with the color code?

[SacTown Chronic]

How many elevated color coded, let's-all-run-around-pissing-our-pants, terror threats has there been since the election?

[wendybeth]

Surprisingly, none that I can recall. Of course, with our fearless leader, none would dare threaten us now....

I never have taken those stupid things seriously. Coming from an entity named "Department of Homeland Security" makes it difficult to do so.

[Gemini Cricket]

Yeah, 'Homeland' sounds almost like 'Motherland' to me...
Yuck.

[€uroMeinke]

Yeah, 'Homeland' sounds almost like 'Motherland' to me...
Yuck.

At least it's better than the Fatherland...

[SacTown Chronic]

Of course, with our fearless leader, none would dare threaten us now....

True that.

I'd hate to be a homosexual terrorist in a low-income tax bracket with Shrub the Badass as president.

[Gn2Dlnd]

Question, questions.
So somehow I am immune being here?
I never gave a rats ass about the color code one way or the other.
Why is it, with people who seem to inately distrust the gov't, still seem to think it matters when they play with the color code? The news covers it like the second coming, and security guards start asking to look inside my coat. I know that it's bullsh*t, but it's hard to avoid being affected and made to feel a little more anxious.

[Nephythys]

Question, questions.


Not caring about the color coding does not mean I do not care or worry about threats here in CO. Nor does it make me deaf and dumb to threats around the country.

[BarTopDancer]

Does anyone truly believe that we'd actually have an attack on a day with an elevated threat level? Even if there was an attack planned do you really think they would carry it out on a day our government is warning us?

It's really sad that people get in a panic when it's a fuchsia warning and live their happy go lucky lives when it's a green day. The color coded warning system is nothing more than another way for our administration to make people think they will die without blindly trusting them.

[MickeyD]

I just had a weird image of you and Bin Laden in a teacup...
:D


Ok, are those of you who are well versed in photoshop really going to let this opportunity pass?

[wendybeth]

Ok, are those of you who are well versed in photoshop really going to let this opportunity pass?

Is that a challenge???

(Although I really suck at Photoshop- so I may pass).

[sleepyjeff]

Yes......but if the Government sat on evidence of even the slimmest possibility of an attack without some sort of warning going out.............well lets just say Micheal Moorish would have a field day.

[Motorboat Cruiser]

You mean like the "Bin Laden determined to attack inside the US with airplanes" kind of evidence? Michael Moore did have a field day, like shooting fish in a barrel. But in the end, the public was still sufficiently duped (or just scared enough, or both) to re-elect Bush.

[sleepyjeff]

..., the public was still sufficiently duped (or just scared enough, or both) to re-elect Bush.

I wasn't duped or scared.........just partisan ;)

[Name]

I wasn't duped or scared.........just partisan ;)
That's scarier then those that were duped or scared....... ;)

[Nephythys]

Huh- I voted for him because I like him and think he will do better than Kerry....