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Re: Has anyone noticed....
Monday, May 16, 2005 1:25 PM on j-body.org
As most intelligent Americans have already suspected, the so-called "terror alerts" announced by the Department of Homeland Security during the past several years were completely bogus and were used by the Bush-Cheney Regime as a propaganda ploy to promote the equally bogus "War on Terrorism."

Former Director of Homeland Security Tom Ridge said that Bush Regime officials forced him to elevate the "threat level" on what he calls "flimsy evidence," reports USA Today.

Ridge, who introduced the goofy color-coded "terror alert" system in 2002, attempted to rationalize his behavior during a Washington press conference.

Current US Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff (whose last name means "of the devil" in Russian) is allegedly deciding how quickly to scrap the color code alert system.

The color alert system has not been changed since December 2003 when it was moved from yellow to orange.

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Re: Has anyone noticed....
Monday, May 16, 2005 1:25 PM on j-body.org
New Evidence : Terror Alerts Were Used As Electoral Weapons
by Chris Bowers

05/11/05 - - Via Parker's diary on the subject. Remember the chart that showed the relationship between Bush's approval rating and terror alters? The chart clearly suggested that terror alerts were used more frequently during times of unpopularity for Bush. Now, new evidence, from Tom Ridge himself, suggests that there was indeed massive outside pressure on the department on homeland to security to often raise the terror alert despite flimsy evidence:

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, who resigned Feb. 1, said Tuesday that he often disagreed with administration officials who wanted to elevate the threat level to orange, or "high" risk of terrorist attack, but was overruled.

His comments at a Washington forum describe spirited debates over terrorist intelligence and provide rare insight into the inner workings of the nation's homeland security apparatus.

Ridge said he wanted to "debunk the myth" that his agency was responsible for repeatedly raising the alert under a color-coded system he unveiled in 2002.

"More often than not we were the least inclined to raise it," Ridge told reporters. "Sometimes we disagreed with the intelligence assessment. Sometimes we thought even if the intelligence was good, you don't necessarily put the country on (alert). ... There were times when some people were really aggressive about raising it, and we said, 'For that?' "


Combined with what Ridge has said, and the chart linked above, can there be any doubt that the Bush administration was frequently raising the terror alerts to help his election chances and increase his political capital rather than to signal actual threats? As Parker says, Howard Dean was right. Terror alerts have undoubtedly been used as a electoral weapon rather than as a safety measure. For more on this subject, JuliusBlog.






Re: Has anyone noticed....
Monday, May 16, 2005 10:02 PM on j-body.org
I think it begs the question of why bother with it in the first place?

Do you really need the government telling you that you need to be on Bert-level anxiety today?



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Re: Has anyone noticed....
Tuesday, May 17, 2005 8:25 AM on j-body.org
Ha! While we're all bickering, the terrorists have struck under our noses!



LOOK! Ernie is between Elmo and Bert because yellow + red = orange. But terrorists have moved Cookie Monster inbetween Ocsar and Bert, where it should be Oscar in the middle! OH THE HUMANITY!




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Re: Has anyone noticed....
Tuesday, May 17, 2005 10:10 AM on j-body.org
I don't think the Bush Administration is thinking in terms of colour processes.

I don't think they're thinking really.

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Re: Has anyone noticed....
Wednesday, May 18, 2005 5:23 PM on j-body.org
But Oscar's Green and Cookie Monster's blue...

Hey OK.. Blue is Dead, Green is alive, yellow is awake, orange is paranoid and red is running around screaming and shooting at stuff. That works for me, let's switch' em up!


Re: Has anyone noticed....
Wednesday, May 18, 2005 5:28 PM on j-body.org
I've noticed a distinct lack of puce.



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Re: Has anyone noticed....
Wednesday, May 18, 2005 5:38 PM on j-body.org
And toap (how the heck do you spell that?).. That would get my vote for replacement "dead" colour for sure.


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Re: Has anyone noticed....
Wednesday, May 18, 2005 6:59 PM on j-body.org
Taupe

There's Gonk... I'd suspect Gonk would be a good colour...

Where's the limp-wrists from Queer-eye or what not to wear (oh, bring the fag-hag along too, what the hell)?


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Re: Has anyone noticed....
Sunday, May 22, 2005 5:14 AM on j-body.org
is it just me or is it everytime that bush gets on stage you feel inclined to look behind that podeum and see whos hand is crammed up his butt? i swear that boy aint playing with a full deck, the color code is part of his master plan to unite the stupid masses of this country, he needs something they can understand something simple to unite them, and yes he is using propoganda, the terrorist thing couldnt of come at a better time, ever notice when a president is in question or in negative public opinion we either have a war or some small act of terrorism? i think the goverment is far more aware of whats going on than they let on, how can anyone get paid thousand and thousands of dollars a month and be so stupid as to sit on their butts among tons of intel about those guys, something bigs coming, it was everywhere, crack heads new more about it than bush did, i swear a retard in a spiderman suit could handle things better than that hypocrit ever will. and NO bush is not doing a good job of finding anything, WHERE THE H#$# IS BIN LADEN? i havent forgot about him and never will, i think i will start sending an email to the whitehouse everyday asking that question. how bout the weapons of mass destruction? where did those go? looks like everything else in bushes past, lie after lie after excuse, after endless times of daddies money buying his way out of things, no more bush's in office, and someone please kill cheney that mans dangerous beyond anyones imaginiation, did anyone ever stop to realize that cheneys home state is texas? bushes home state is also texas? do the masses not realize that officially 2 canidates cannot reside in the same state? check out rolling stone, may not be the greatest but they have alot of dirt on these guys.

J~
Re: Has anyone noticed....
Sunday, May 22, 2005 10:44 AM on j-body.org
Hell, there's been Books written about the screw-ups that have been re-elected.



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Re: Has anyone noticed....
Thursday, May 26, 2005 3:50 AM on j-body.org
J~ wrote:WHERE THE H#$# IS BIN LADEN? i havent forgot about him and never will, i think i will start sending an email to the whitehouse everyday asking that question.
J~


Bush doesn't check his email. See for yourself.
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