DHS Sec. Napolitano Considers New Threat Alert System
President George W. Bush’s presidency was known for its War on Terror.
It’s looking as if President Barack Obama’s presidency will be known for a War of Appeasement and Capitulation.
A few weeks ago we learned that the Obama Administration would no longer be calling terrorists held at Club Gitmo “enemy combatants;” possible replacement terms include “agitated fanatic” and “misunderstood person.”
Earlier this week we learned that the Obama Administration would no longer refer to the War on Terror. This distracting bit of conflict with those who want to destroy us will now be referred to as an “Overseas Contingency Operation”, or as it is more commonly known, the “Unpleasant Afterthought.”
Now we learn the Obama Administration may do away with that icky business of informing the public about increased or imminent terrorist threats.
From Newsmax:
In an MSNBC News interview Tuesday, however, Napolitano said the current color-coded alert system DHS has in place is of “marginal utility. I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about them.”
Napolitano said the color-coded chart, which has been widely criticized for being too vague to help the public understand what kind of threat it faces, does little good advising the public of terrorist activity. She reportedly may create another system, or get rid of the alerts altogether, The New York Times reports.
Just last week, Napolitano set a new tone from her predecessors at the DHS, Tom Ridge and Michael Chertoff, by avoiding the terms “terrorism” and “9/11″ in her first address to the House Homeland Security Committee since taking office.
Napolitano, the Associated Press reports, is the first homeland security secretary to drop the term “terror” and “vulnerability” from remarks to the House Homeland Security Committee.
In related news, the Administration is considering changing the name of the Department of Homeland Security to the Department of Pleasant Thoughts.
If they do create another color-coded system, I’m pretty sure what it will be: one color (white) displayed in the form of a flag. The message from the alert system will be more for the benefit of America’s enemies than for Americans.
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