Did Tom Ridge shitcan his little color-coded terror threat warning system?

[NNN0LHI]

Don't hear too much if anything about the elevated terra levels no more. Quick. What color is it? Don't hear too much from Ridge no more either for that matter. Whassup? That morAn used to be on TV everyday telling us to watch out for one thing or another. One day it was scuba diver terra-ists. The next day there was going to be some terra-ists driving a bunch of fuel tankers that were going to crash into us at any moment. Then we had the entire fleet of mystery ships of doom which were full of WMD's and were about to gas us all any second. What happened to all of that stuff? Did we ever even really have a color-coded terror threat warning system, or was I just having a bad dream?

Don

[Khephra]

1. It was mentioned on the 19th

Treasuries Higher on Alert Rumors



(2003-08-19)
By Pedro Nicolaci da Costa

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Treasury prices benefited on Tuesday from market rumors, later denied by the U.S. government, that the national "terror alert" system might be upgraded following increasingly severe attacks in Iraq.

http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wxxi/news.newsmain?action=article&ARTICLE_ID=535591

[ElsewheresDaughter]

2. so it appears...$80 million color code system...what a phucking dickwad!

$80,000,000 tax payers money down the toilet!

[gristy]

7. What $80M?

What was that spent on?

[Braden]

3. I got this one yesterday from a client of mine

Government ALERT regarding purchase of UPS uniforms:
>
>There has been a huge purchase, $32,000 worth, of United Parcel Service
>(UPS) uniforms on eBay over the last 30 days. This could represent a
>serious threat as bogus drivers can drop off anything to anyone with
deadly
>consequences! If you have ANY questions when a UPS driver appears at
>your door, they should be able to furnish VALID I.D.
>
>Additionally, if someone in a UPS uniform comes to make a drop off or
>pick up, make absolutely sure they are driving a UPS truck. UPS doesn't
>make deliveries or pickups in anything except a company vehicle. If you
>have a problem, IMMEDIATELY call your local law enforcement agency
>right away! TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY!  Tell everyone in your office, family,
>friends, etc.  Make people aware so that we can prepare and/or avoid
>terrorist attacks on our people!  Thank you for your time in reviewing
>this and PLEASE send to EVERYONE on your list, even if they are friend
>or foe. We should all be aware!
>
>Kimberly Bush-****
>Management Program Specialist
>U.S. Department of Homeland Security
>Bureau Customs and Border Protection
>Washington, DC 20229
>
>
>
>
>***********************************************************************
>****

******

[Caution]

6. This is a bogus story

(not sure if you were presenting it as such or not but this one is thoroughly debunked)

http://www.snopes.com/rumors/ups.asp

[Braden]

8. I figured it was

but they over react to everything. Does UPS even have 30,000 extra uniforms?

If I told you the name of the company that sent this to their 18,000 employees you would not believe it.

[Capn Sunshine]

10. Variation on a debunked rumor

http://www.snopes.com/rumors/ups.asp

[Braden]

13. judging by the Over the Top

tell everyone you know type wording I thought as much.

when I am waiting for Brown to deliver my Abdomizer I am going to really grill the driver......

[BiggJawn]

19. THATS why my new pedals and shorts are late!

Arschloch is checking them for cordite...

Or he's putting itching powder in the chamois...

[SoCalDem]

4. We are on permanent Yellow

Why they even included blue & green, is beyond me.. We will NEVER be blue or green...

yellow is the color we will always be..

Orange gets people stirred up and they might quit shopping... and some states have pretty much said, they are NOT going to go along with this little money sucking game of high alert every time Ridge "thinks" that the bogeymen are headed our way..

Red, and they stay home and shut down industry..

We are officially the "Yellow Nation"...

[DuctapeFatwa]

9. That post is only a couple of edits away from a full-fledged song

"why blue and green, it's beyond me

yellow is the color we will always be

orange stirs people up, they might stop shopping

some say to red they will not be hopping

yellow is the color we will always be

red could shut down industry!

we are the yellow nation

so man the battle stations

cause yellow is the color we will always be"

[SoCalDem]

12. Nice Beat and easy to dance to :)

You songwriter, you :)

[HereSince1628]

5. Recently Blair is in more trouble than Bush so

the British were warned by the US last week that they may have 9/11 style attacks on highrise buildings.

[Wwagsthedog]

11. Wait until the September rollout...

...when pimple head gets back to Washington. I'm still laughing about the blind, brain-dead parakeet description. And, like many others, waiting to be told when to be afraid, very afraid.:eyes:

[ferg]

14. We are safe now

That's the message the Bushies want to convey. Now that they've invaded Iraq, there's no need for the orange alerts.

And it would be counter productive. If Bush sends an orange alert, that says that the Iraq invasion was a failure.

[cosmicdot]

16. good point

... George at the convention is preceded by speech after speech and video after video of the world being safer, especially 'homeland' ... blah blah blah ..... afterall ... when was the last high alert?

[JackSwift]

15. You can check your clothes color coordination here

http://www.whitehouse.gov/homeland/index.html

They spent $80 million for this? My local fire station used to do this for free.

[rocktivity]

17. Take Back The Media can explain it all for you

http://www.takebackthemedia.com/dtape1.html

"Operation Duct And Cover" benefitted only the plastics and adhesive industries.


rocknation

[yellowcanine]

18. Got laughed off the national stage?

It appears that the color codes more or less got laughed off the national stage. It all kind of got lumped in with the duct tape and plastic fiasco. Someday we will all sit around and laugh our butts off about this. Just mentioning Dubya, Tom Ridge, Dick Cheney, or Donald Rumsfield will be good for a guffaw or two.

[KoKo]

20. His crayon box got lost!

:-)'s

[dansolo]

21. Remember when the alert level was displayed

on the scrolling text of every single cable news channel, no matter what the level was?

[Solomon]

22. I personally was appreciative of the color code

because I was afraid that the cabal would attack us from time to time to keep us in line. With the color code, they can jerk us around just by changing colors, instead of actually attacking us.