[af_vet_rr]

b) this country remains under threat of attack from (Islamic) terrorists. (The default "code-yellow" terrorism alert level is two steps ABOVE "nothing to see here", regardless of how comfortable and complacent we've gotten)

Then the logical default assumption in any incident involving explosives - especially in a (potentially) crowded public place - should be Terrorism, until such time as facts demonstrate otherwise.

I disagree for a simple reason - President Bush and the National Security Council have access to a lot more information about terrorism than you or I could imagine.

If President Bush and the NSC felt there was a threat to this country, they would have bumped our border security up. They haven't, and therefore either they are very incompetent, or they have enough information that they feel secure in leaving things the way they are.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

"If President Bush and the NSC felt there was a threat to this country, they would have bumped our border security up."

Well actually, he was already advised, multiple times, that a worse attack is inevitable. That's what has the Minute Men so ticked off. Inevitable means that there is simply no way you can take safe borders seriously enough.