Posted by JM Ashby
Remember those vague color-coded terror alerts? The same alerts that were often used without specific pretext and in some cases elevated right before elections to scare people?
WASHINGTON — By the end of April, terror threats to the U.S. will no longer be described in shades of green, blue, yellow, orange and red, The Associated Press has learned.
...The Homeland Security Department and other government agencies have been reviewing the Homeland Security Advisory System's usefulness for more than a year. One of the most notable changes to come: The public will no longer hear automated recordings at U.S. airports stating that the threat level is orange.
The Obama administration will take the next three months to roll out a replacement, which will be called the National Terrorism Advisory System. The new plan calls for notifying specific audiences about specific threats. In some cases, it might be a one-page threat description sent to law enforcement officials describing the threat, what law enforcement needs to do about it and what the federal government is doing, one of the officials said.
No more thinly-veiled, un-warranted attempts to make the paranoid masses piss their pants?
"The president is clearly trying to make it easier for his terrorist brothers to enter the country" - Glenn Beck, tomorow during his theatre hour. Bet on it!