Clashing Color Codes Controversy
 

"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

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

:eek:

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.

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

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...

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.

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

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.

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

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?

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