Hot dog! We can all sleep better tonight!
With all the babble about mass shootings and terrorists delivering pizza the government has come up with a new system to warn us great unwashed about the chances of a terrorist attack…..
The Obama administration will announce a new terror alert system “in the coming days,” Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said Monday. Johnson said the new alert system will better inform the public about threats to the United States, but he did not provide specific details. This will be the third terror alert system put in place by the Homeland Security Department since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The much maligned color-coded system was replaced in 2011 by the National Threat Advisory System, which has never been used because it requires a “specific, credible threat” to the US in order to be activated. The plan to change the alert system was announced in the wake of the mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, which the FBI has declared a terrorism investigation.
The new effort will include an “intermediate” step, Johnson said in announcing the new alert system during a forum with Defense One magazine. Johnson said while a specific motive has not been determined in the California shooting, the threat from home-grown radicals or those inspired by foreign groups is a growing concern in part because such attacks may not be discovered in advance. The new terror alert system, he said, better “reflects the current environment and current realities. We need a system that adequately informs the public at large … about what we are seeing, what we are doing and what we are asking the public to do about it,” Johnson said.
I need to know more…..for what I see is that this is just another lame attempt to appear as if everything is under control.
This will be the third different “alert system” that we had in place and nothing has stopped the idiots like this dude in California and his whack-out wife……where will this system be any more effective than the ones that preceded it?
I could say that I will sleep better knowing that DHS is one the job…..but that would be disingenuous because I trust NO one but myself….I definitely will not trust the media or either political party to keep me safe…
I will sleep well tonight but it has NOTHING to do with anything but the fact that I know what I am capable of doing if the event arises.
Turn The Page!
Maya continues to rule; entropy is out of control….
g, td
These things are likely the single most meaningless things on Earth. It’s a total Chicken Little thing. But even if there was an evidence based cause for concern, (which never happens) it’s still functionally useless to the average citizen.
“We’ve elevated the Threat Level from “Shit Your Pants! to “Run For Your Lives!” We don’t know/can’t say who is out to get us. We don’t/can’t say how they’re going to get us. We don’t know/can’t say what area of the country is going to be attacked. We can’t say how we found this out. (Curveball?) Nor can we say what we’re going to do about it. All we can say is…Be more scared than you already are!
After he left, former Homeland Security Chief, Tom Ridge, publicly stated these threat levels were routinely moved around for purely political purposes and had nothing to do with any intelligence reports. After that, only a complete idiot would ever take them seriously. Unfortunately, there’s no shortage of them.
Congratulations Obama for getting into the “scare ’em” game and treating us all like stupid children!