Here we go again

[redbird]

The "terror alert level" is back up to

If it ever hits Elmo, should I head for the hills? And are we still supposed to believe that the capture of Saddam Hussein somehow made anyone outside Iraq safer?

(That link fetches the current alert level, which presumably will change at some point; when this entry was posted it was at Ernie (orange))

Comments

[dglenn.livejournal.com]

Yup. :-(

So far we've only seen "be nervous" and "be a little more nervous", and I suspect that unless we ever do get to "we don't want to call this martial law but it is", those two are all we'll ever see. That is, "blue" and "green" exist only to have something to compare "yellow" to, and no matter what the risk level really is, we're never supposed to feel safer than yellow ...

... so that if "red" ever does get imposed, we'll be conditioned to think it's for our own good, and so that we never relax enough to stop and think whether the guys in charge are the ones we're safest under.

Here's hoping we never see Elmo.

[stakebait.livejournal.com]

Plus there's the "cover your ass" factor. If they knock it down all the way to safe and then something happens, they look like idiots.