Why all the looks of surprise? The media pundits are falling over themselves in amazement at Tom Ridge's revelations that the Bush Administration would raise the 'terror' alerts right before the 2004 elections. I cannot understand it... but then again, I do. The ostrich mentality of this nation since 9/11 explains a great deal...and yet it does not. From day one, the PNAC neocons implemented tactics that showed them to be the terrorists they were. They did their utmost to frighten and inspire terror in the hearts and minds of the US population in order to gain support for their war, and to ensure that the public remained loyal to the imperialistic goals these evil men had established years before.
Just to prove a point, let me link to an article that was written before the 2004 election, warning the public of the strategy of terror being used to control the nation. This was only one of many such articles at this site, but in this case it directly addresses the abuse of the ridiculous color coding system that had been set up to unnerve a traumatized country.
It is titled: Clockwork Orange - TVNL Looks at the Fear Factor
It opens:
On four separate occasions during 2003, Americans were notified by their government that the color of the day had changed. Only this wasn’t summer camp, and no one was playing games. On each of these days, the nation was being warned that our lives were being threatened more seriously than the day before. The codified threat alert had changed from Yellow to Orange. There was nothing we could do. There was nowhere we could go. It was only a change of color, but it did the trick: Americans everywhere were being introduced to the color of fear!
Think of it. In these times of heightened alertness and concerns about terrorism, we were handed a really effective color code to guide us! Well, maybe not totally effective, since not a square inch of the country is ever at Low Green (almost no danger) or Guarded Blue (oh, maybe just a little danger). Actually, the best we can hope for on an ordinary day is Elevated Yellow (we know they’re around, somewhere), and being resilient and stoic Americans, we’ve learned to live with that. But for the stage managers in Washington, that just won’t do.
A change from Yellow to Orange is unnerving. Karl Rove knows that. But a change from Orange back to Yellow brings a sense of relief to a worried nation. Karl Rove knows that, too. He knows gratitude and relief are subliminal partners. "Thank you, George Bush, he would have us say, "for saving us from those who would harm us. You’ve taken away the Orange, and we are no longer afraid?
Read the full article here:
http://www.tvnewslies.org/...
Think about the reality that Ridge could have exposed the ruse years ago, but did not. Now, he is covering his ass with a book about his innocence and opposition to what went on. How shameful, but how clever at the same time.