The Administration That Cried “Alert”

Posted on February 12, 2003 in Paranoids

Subtitle: One for the ConservaRoaches

Was I the only one who noticed that the “Orange Alert” and instructions about how to protect ourselves from chemical attacks came out right after the Columbia disaster?

chari, wkenshow, and MJ have all commented on the plans. Some take it more seriously than others.

I have to apply the “What makes me think that I am so damned important that a terrorist is going to target my house?” rule to these fears. Right after the WTC attack, elaborate security precautions went up around the country. Firemen in small Iowa towns braced themselves for suicide bombers rushing up to their doors. Folks in gated communities like Dove Canyon and Cote de Casa ordered more fencing and alarms to protect themselves from transient Islamic jihadists who might get past the security gate, the fence around each house, the locked doors, and the six inch thick steel door to the filtered safe room that they already have. George W. Bush had the Secret Service interrogate the cows and change the locks on his luxury digs at Crawford..

As I told chari, I am more concerned about what the terrorists in Washington might do. That’s what these alerts are: terrorism. Acts of suggested violence against us calculated to make us change our behavior and accept the upcoming war in Iraq and forget that this illegitimate Administration screwed up in the first place by dropping surveillance of Al Quaeda’s operations in the United States.

And let us not forget that we now have the largest budget deficit in history plus the most fascist police state we’ve ever known on the national level. There is every reason for the Washington puppet masters to wave the orange cape. They don’t want us seeing what they are doing.

I do have my own preparedness plan, though you won’t find it in the Ashcroft Guide to Creepy Things We Want You to Believe that Terrorists Will Do so that You’ll be so Busy Preparing for Them that You Won’t Notice Us Robbing You Blind: my international friends (none of whom is a member of Al Quaeda) have all been told what to do in the event that Lynn and I both disappear from the net without explanation — contact Amnesty International and have them look for me in Ashcroft’s next level of interment camps.