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Ridge to raise Terror Alert, news conf. 1:30 pm Eastern
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Posted on 12/21/2003 9:34:27 AM PST by putupon
announcement, nothing furthur
TOPICS: Breaking News; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; defconernie; homelandsecurity; orange; orangealert4; shieldsup; turbanalert; waronterror; wot
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To: Miss Marple
MSNBC has a Seattle Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske's news conference on now. He's talking about a conference call with seven cities that happened before the Sec. Ridge news conference this afternoon. He looks calm and in control. Good news.
661
posted on
12/21/2003 2:16:36 PM PST
by
relee
To: Miss Marple
I don't think mocking the police is very helpful or responsible. I'd rather disemploy half of their sorry asses. If we cut our numbers of police in half, we'd have about as many police per capita as Communist Police State Red Freakin' China.
You probably think there is nothing wrong with having twice as many police per capita as the PRC.
662
posted on
12/21/2003 2:16:47 PM PST
by
eno_
(Freedom Lite - it's almost worth defending)
To: TexKat
If I may ask, who is this Daleel guy, and why should we believe a single word he says? I see his ramblings posted around here constantly, but I've never seen anyone cite any proof that he has any connection to AQ at all. Anyone can start a Yahoo group and claim to be anyone, after all.
To: Dont Mention the War
gebhart is on fox...telling terrorist where weakspots are just to try and rub GOPs nose in it
664
posted on
12/21/2003 2:21:27 PM PST
by
mylife
To: eno_
You are absolutely the sorriest excuse for a Freeper I have seen in some time. If you don't want to pay attention to the threat level, fine. Go read another thread and ignore this one.
To: Dave S
Why cross the hot dessert and dodge drug dealers and crooked cops, when you fly directly into Logan Airport or cross the bridge into the US at Windsor, Canada. Give us a break, lamebrain.I don't know why, why don't you ask the ones who there are already credible reports of having done it, Einstein?
666
posted on
12/21/2003 2:22:27 PM PST
by
putupon
("Borders? We don' need no steenkin' borders!"-Presidente Jorge Dubya del Rino Arbusto)
To: mylife
Chris: Why are you losing ground? You've lost 2% points since the last survey.
Dick: Uhhh, well, ah, it's George Bush's fault yadayadayada
667
posted on
12/21/2003 2:24:39 PM PST
by
TomGuy
To: Dave S
well, ya, no kidding ... as you say, they're always on the list ... what *else* is my question ...
To: oceanview
so let me get this straight, you want every passenger on air flights to have guns?No, only those who meet four requirements:
- Have a CCW permit
- Have their handgun loaded with frangible bullets
- Have had training on the use of a firearm in an airliner
- Are willing
Airline pilots support this idea, too, in case you hadn't noticed. An armed passenger cabin is a polite passenger cabin.
But for those of you who are afraid of guns, you should be free to fly on a disarmed airline if you want to. Let the free market decide which is safer.
669
posted on
12/21/2003 2:28:47 PM PST
by
snopercod
(Come beloved and fill the bowl that clears today of past regrets and future fears...)
To: TomGuy
It pisses me off when these yahoos get on TV and start the "GW Suks because Here is where we are weak, (are ya listening AQ?)anybody could take advantage of our Blah blah blah!"
Idiots who would risk security for the sake of polls. Argg!
670
posted on
12/21/2003 2:29:31 PM PST
by
mylife
To: Dave S
If I were to become a politician rather than a citizen, that would raise the average IQ of both categories.
671
posted on
12/21/2003 2:30:46 PM PST
by
snopercod
(Come beloved and fill the bowl that clears today of past regrets and future fears...)
To: TomGuy
MSNBC talking head asks Bernard Kerik how the local governments will pay for this higher level of security mandated by the federal government?
The former NYC Police Commissioner said they can pay now or pay later. If we spent the money we should have spent after the 1993 WTC attack, we would have saved billions in 2001.
How true!
672
posted on
12/21/2003 2:31:39 PM PST
by
relee
To: Dave S
Give us a break, lamebrainAnd for your inability to engage in discourse with educated without name calling, you get to see the Three Amigos again!
673
posted on
12/21/2003 2:31:40 PM PST
by
putupon
("Borders? We don' need no steenkin' borders!"-Presidente Jorge Dubya del Rino Arbusto)
To: putupon
Great, now it will be almost impossible to do any plane spotting over the holidays. It is bad enough when the terror alert is Yellow but when it goes to Orange, airport employees and police go into Gestapo mode.
To: relee; FairOpinion; StarFan; freeperfromnj
Now that would definitely be a disturbing event. The country pretty much shuts down at code red.The one thing about the news conference that disturbed me was when a reporter asked Ridge why, if they had such a substantial increase in credible information about potential attacks, they only jumped to orange instead of red. Ridge stood there, frozen, for a good five seconds or so, working over in his mind a perfectly formulated non-response response to the question before opening his mouth.
I couldn't help but be left with the inference that a jump straight to code red was given very serious consideration by these guys during those 72 hours of deliberation.
To: Cousin Eddie
The Sears building in Chicago.
Network studios (cbsnbcabc).
Hollywood studios.
JFK airport (or any major airport)
Nuclear plants.
676
posted on
12/21/2003 2:39:47 PM PST
by
gitmo
(Who is John Galt?)
To: kstewskis; nmh
Keep her and protect her as you always have, nmh. I agree with you, and feel sorry for the kids these days for what they have to put up with. I guess the early kids of the late 50's/early 60's had similar fears with bomb shelters and Cuban missiles. May God bless your little girl and shroud her, you, and your family with His love and protection this Christmas season.
Ditto kstewskis. I recall 'duck & cover' during elementary school in New Orleans during Cuban crisis...maybe that's why some of us are a little more tightly wound on these alerts. nmh...I wish I could protect my niece and nephews (all under 8) like you want to protect your little girl. Stay vigilant, prepared and in prayer.<><
677
posted on
12/21/2003 2:39:58 PM PST
by
hummingbird
("If it wasn't for the insomnia, I could have gotten some sleep!")
To: eno_
Great. So the same donut munchers manning the speed traps, failing to solve even 10% of burglaries, and burning down churches are supposed to heed this alert and be effective at preventing something? All cops solve 10% of the burglaries AND all cops burn down churches? Your above sentence structure implies that.
To: Dont Mention the War
Ridge stood there, frozen, for a good five seconds or so, working over in his mind a perfectly formulated non-response response to the question before opening his mouth That's his natural expression. Don't try and read anything into it. Someone could have asked him where he parked his car this morning and the response would have been identical.
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posted on
12/21/2003 2:42:48 PM PST
by
riri
To: Dont Mention the War
That caught my attention too. Tom Ridge was doing a pretty good job of reassuring me that the government was on top of the situation, right up to that final question.
680
posted on
12/21/2003 2:46:43 PM PST
by
relee
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