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And I'm sure you think the aliens being held at Hangar 18 are supplying our advanced technology, too.

Huh? What the hell are you talking about?

I've gone back and reread my posting and I can't see how you could come to the conclusion that I would believe in any nonsensical conspiracy.

I'm suggesting that an accumulation of individual incompetence all the way from Tom Ridge to the FBI, to the lcoal police, to story editors at AP and Reuters, to the editor of your local newspaper, combine to make these alerts useless and pointless, even destructive. Each person the chain has to embellish the story only a little until it turns into "definitly, and attack on Feb 12th...Definitly in New York...And Washington...and better get duct tape."

So how to do you get a conspiracy out of that? Maybe you can tell me how a rational person should respond to an "Orange Alert" that is based on BS and wishful thinking on the part of Johnny G Men? I say ignore it.

[LS]

Incompetence, I can agree with. I read into your post a Waco/OK City scenario. My mistake, and I apologize. Let me clarify again. I don't have faith in government. I have faith in God to guide us to put the right people IN government---remember, God used all sorts of evil/unholy people to protect Israel, so certainly He can use a Godly man like Bush and some of the others in his administration.

But perhaps incompetence is too nasty a term. We are dealing with intel challenges unseen since the Soviet era, but much different. So I do cut people a break as they get it together. Do I like the color coded alerts? No, but you saw what happened by the Dems when we didn't have any alerts. Some things must be done for political cover.