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05/29/2003 Archived Entry: "Alert level to be knocked down a notch."
Alert level to be knocked down a notch.
So, the Terror Threat Level is probably going to be brought back down from orange to yellow today. The level is being changed since there were no attacks over the Memorial Day weekend, and no new intelligence regarding terrorist attacks.
'No new intelligence.' Insert your own jokes here.
Replies: 4 people speak up
The alerts are a joke the colors remind me of a stoplight for the terrorist.Red light stop green light go.I don't know maybe it's just me,does anyone else think that this could be a problem?
Posted by kuma @ 05/29/2003 12:31 PM NY
I'm gonna' go out on a limb here.
I suspect that Homeland Security honcho Tom Ridge is gay. Hence that color scheme. I mean, really, what straight guy would use colors? Now me, I would've used a system based on numbers (like the Def Con system).
If Ridge would just be honest and came out of the closet, he'd use colors like Fuchsia, Magenta, Chartruese
Kuma,
You have a point. If I were an Evil Doer, I'd wait for the alert level to go down to Yellow, then I'd blow myself up.
Posted by Metropolitan99 @ 05/29/2003 01:45 PM NY
Well yeah, cause they signed Dubyah's tax cut bill -- complete with a last minute screw-the-poor twist that deprives poor families of child tax credits.
Posted by ada @ 05/29/2003 07:24 PM NY
Has anyone tried to correlate the "terror level" with actual terrorist activity? I heard somewhere recently that attacks NEVER come when the "terror level" is elevated . . . maybe kuma is right -- but would terrorists WAIT for a green light?
Posted by Michael Scott @ 05/30/2003 12:39 AM NY
