duck and cover

[geekchick]

Today is Boomtime, day 10 in the season of The Aftermath, 3167.

They just announced another non-specific terrorism threat for the next week, based on more "credible evidence", which naturally didn't specify where anything *might* happen. Not that I'd expect them to flat-out say so to the press if it did. I just wonder what the point of this is, other than making everyone utterly paranoid for a week?

Comments

[sol3.livejournal.com]

I'm waiting for the FDA to issue recommended daily allowance guidelines for paranoia.

This way, news articles can state that they provide 10% or 50% or 200% of the RDA for paranoia...

This will also help us know when to stop reading the news, or which news articles to avoid so that we don't exceed our RDA....

I wonder if there's a Material Safety Data Sheet on paranoia...

[geekchick]

I don't think there's a paranoia data sheet yet, but there are plenty of relevant forms to be filled out. ;)

[sol3.livejournal.com]

You know... it dawns on me that these comment pages are UV cleared... what was your clearance again, friend citizen? :)

--Dg, *giggling* "please shoot the commie mutant traitor on your left"

[geekchick]

"The computer is my friend and I would never do anything to commit treason, therefore I am not in an Ultraviolet zone."

;)

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

Blah blah blah blah blah.... actually, the following is my favorite quote from the Washington Post's article about the alert:

[Attorney General John Ashcroft] said that while the information was not specific, the FBI was issuing the alert to the American people because"they can make good judgements and can understand this kind of information." (emphasis mine)

No they fucking can't - at what point has the American public as a whole displayed good judgement about all of this? Stockpiling Cipro and standing by like sheep while the government torches civil liberties? (Jesus, I sound like a conspiracy theorist paranoid....)

There is no "information" to be understood. I wish they wouldn't release shit like this unless they have something specific to say.

Rough translation - its just a reminder that Things Are Different Now, like we needed hammered home yet again....