Threat level raised

[No Limit]

that reminds me, its election year again

Of course the annoucement of this required a huge 2 hour press conference to tell us all how great Bush is at fighting terrorists and how we should all be scared.

 

[>>FrEnZy<<]

Bye Bye Bush.

 

[theotherguy]

The threat level is a joke. All it does it serve to make people scared.

 

[Mechagodzilla]

Oh shit! Panic!! BUY DUCT TAPE!!!

 

[Captain M4d]

I never understood the threat level. When it's red, what am I supposed to do? Should I look at the sky and search for any IECFOs (Islam Extremist Controlled Falling Objects)? Should I buy a gun? Should I register Republican? Should I submit to Christianity? The government was never clear on what I should do.

 

[VictimOfScience]

Just keep your eyes open. Don't walk around totally unaware of your environment. Its pretty simple really and the smart ones among us don't require an infantile color-coded system to let us know to do this--we do it already.

 

[Captain M4d]

Just keep your eyes open. Don't walk around totally unaware of your environment. Its pretty simple really and the smart ones among us don't require an infantile color-coded system to let us know to do this--we do it already.

That seems simple enough, and I have really good reflexes. Perhaps I can punch a crashing airplane back into the air at the moment before it crashes.

 

[VictimOfScience]

That seems simple enough, and I have really good reflexes. Perhaps I can punch a crashing airplane back into the air at the moment before it crashes.

Wow. What a waste of your presumably valuable compute cycles.

 

[No Limit]

That seems simple enough, and I have really good reflexes. Perhaps I can punch a crashing airplane back into the air at the moment before it crashes.

Thanks, I needed that this morning.

 

[Baserape>]

The British Governemnt has just rolled out it's own advanced terror warning as shown below:

http://img325.imageshack.us/img325/5237/alertnj3.jpg

Low - an attack is unlikely
Moderate - an attack is possible, but not likely
Substantial - an attack is a strong possibility
Severe - an attack is highly likely
Critical - an attack is expected imminently

If you have information about possible terrorist activity, call the Anti-Terrorist Hotline: 0800 789 321

 

[Tr0n]

Oh shit oh shit oh shit...


WE'RE GOING TO DIE

 

[No Limit]

The British Governemnt has just rolled out it's own advanced terror warning as shown below:

http://img325.imageshack.us/img325/5237/alertnj3.jpg

Low - an attack is unlikely
Moderate - an attack is possible, but not likely
Substantial - an attack is a strong possibility
Severe - an attack is highly likely
Critical - an attack is expected imminently

If you have information about possible terrorist activity, call the Anti-Terrorist Hotline: 0800 789 321

Wow, scary

 

[Mechagodzilla]

But an attack is not highly likely.
They foiled it, and set up even tighter security than normal.
the terrorists won't try some kind of half-assed Plan B because that would look weak.

The threat should down there below "moderate".
If another attack is attempted within the next week, I will eat my words.
But until then, this is stupid.


By the way, I love how "moderate" is at the bottom of the list.
Call me crazy, but shouldn't moderate be in the middle?

 

[gick]

But an attack is not highly likely.
They foiled it, and set up even tighter security than normal.
the terrorists won't try some kind of half-assed Plan B because that would look weak.

The threat should down there below "moderate".
If another attack is attempted within the next week, I will eat my words.
But until then, this is stupid.

To be fair though, the police probably have a much better knowledge of threats than we do. We cant just assume that this is the only thing going on.

 

[bbson john]

The threat should down there below "moderate".
If another attack is attempted within the next week, I will eat my words.
But until then, this is stupid.

The London almost suffered from another attack just a month after the previous attack. Even though there is a month interval. An attack is expected.

 

[15357]

I must say, Bush is a great politician when it comes to this. Putting some fear into the populace is a great tactic.

 

[Mechagodzilla]

I swear you've got some kind of subservience fetish, number.

 

[Raziaar]

OooooOOOOoOOOo. Threat level raised.

Pfft. I hate this threat level crap. They should keep it strictly internal to the people that actually do something about terrorists.

 

[Llama]

I find it laughable that pricks like Bush are doing this when it was our country that could have lost over two and a half thousand lives.

 

[Ome_Vince]

I love Bush's point on: "we have freedom and democracy, and some terrorist organisations are jealous of that, and wish to destroy this, and will do anything they can to achieve this"

Even recently he started blabbering like that, and i honoustly thought, man is he talking to 12 year olds?

Though, with regards to the topic, it is kind of disturbing to see these folks were pretty close and/or actually trying to do this.

 

[Stigmata]

I swear you've got some kind of subservience fetish, number.

He's just saying that all this fear-mongering is a good tactic for garnering voter support. It's morally reprehensible, but hey, he DID get re-elected.

And the terror levels are bullshit. I'm sure terrorists would be smart enough to say "Hey, the threat level is high, let's just wait a week for the level to go down again before we attack!" Bringing terror levels down is like dropping your arms for a minute in a boxing match. Only most of the time, you're the only one in the ring.

 

[15357]

I swear you've got some kind of subservience fetish, number.

He's just saying that all this fear-mongering is a good tactic for garnering voter support. It's morally reprehensible, but hey, he DID get re-elected.

And the terror levels are bullshit. I'm sure terrorists would be smart enough to say "Hey, the threat level is high, let's just wait a week for the level to go down again before we attack!" Bringing terror levels down is like dropping your arms for a minute in a boxing match. Only most of the time, you're the only one in the ring.

^ what he said.

 

[staticprimer]

I never understood the threat level. When it's red, what am I supposed to do? Should I look at the sky and search for any IECFOs (Islam Extremist Controlled Falling Objects)? Should I buy a gun? Should I register Republican? Should I submit to Christianity? The government was never clear on what I should do.

I think at one point they told us to go buy packing tape or something, presumably to pack the gifts we were to send to them for saving our oh so threatened lives

 

[_Z_Ryuken]

By the way, I love how "moderate" is at the bottom of the list.
Call me crazy, but shouldn't moderate be in the middle?

It is actually. They just ommitted the first levels of "nothing to worry about" and "an attack is impossible".

 

[jibcart]

That seems simple enough, and I have really good reflexes. Perhaps I can punch a crashing airplane back into the air at the moment before it crashes.

If you do, could you aim it towards the middle-east and kill two terrorists with one plane?