speaking of bert the yellow muppet...

[rmd]

looking at http://www.geekandproud.net/terror/, i notice we've been at yellow alert for quite a while, continuously. we're not "guarded", we're not at "high" alert. we're just continually "elevated". which has become ... "normal".

considering the confusion and mockery that resulted the last time we went to orange (quick! seal yourselves in an airtight room with tarps and duct tape!), want to bet we're never going to budge from "yellow" unless there's an actual attack on US soil? at which point we'll go to red (that is to say, martial law)

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[cz_unit]

Or the day before election day we go to "red". Esp if the polls put Bush behind.

This is after all the party that rewrites districts in CO and TX to ensure it's majority, despite things like laws.

The party that tried to impeach a sitting president over laughable material, yet does nothing when their boy commits agressive warfare for the hell of it.

This is the party that is impeaching the Gov of CA because they think they can.

And will strike down the recent decision on the fairness of elections by a court that cited the Bush vs. Gore decision verbatim. But this time it's "different", I am sure.

Right now I'd expect anything.

CZ

[whitebird.livejournal.com]

Oh no.

It's a recall, not an impeachment. Impeachments require due process and things like that.

Recalls only require media hype and commercials.

But now the recall is in the process of being recalled. Or something, I just can't keep track any more.

[emmacrew.livejournal.com]

It went back up to orange at the beginning of the summer, and that wasn't the time of the duct tape frenzy. Nobody seemed to freak much that I noticed. One of the other moms asked "did you hear they raised the terror alert level?" and me not having heard it had gone down to yellow first thought "fuck, he's declaring martial law" but then she said "yeah, it's at orange again" and my reaction was "oh, orange, who cares." So I think orange isn't that unlikely. But yeah, I can see red if it looks like Dubya's gonna lose.

[miss-chance.livejournal.com]

I think Red just exists to make Orange more ominous. I imagine it'll go to Orange once in Spring, and again in early Sept. of 04. Red is too dramatic, the martial law aspects of it are un-enforceable because of the gutting of the cities and towns budgets. Orange, on the other hand, make slightly more modest requirements of local governments, which most still can't really afford. They put extra cops on the beat, and then they can't afford to run senior shuttles to the polls. People here "orange" and they have this small creeping feeling of fear and are a little more reluctant to make big sweeping governemental changes "just in case." So, "orange" it will be, a couple more times before the election next year. These guys are not going to give up all thier ill-gotten power.