Mr. Ridge, What's the Point of the Alert? [View All]

[louis c]

Wouldn't it make more sense if you didn't make a public statement?

Wouldn't it be more effective if you increased security in the targeted areas, if indeed they are targeted?

If this is truly a credible threat, the terrorists have now been warned, and won't they now attack another location, where we are not prepared?

Since this is an election year, and past alerts have turned out to be unfounded, do you think it was wise to use the occasion of announcing the alert to make such transparent statements in support of the President? Since the last alert was the day after Kerry's announcement of Edwards as his running mate, and this one is just days after the Democratic Convention, don't you think that action heightens the publics' skepticism?

Mr. Ridge, now that you have given me this knowledge, what am I to do with it? Shall I not go to work if I am employed in the area you just discussed? Shall I turn in any suspicious person I see in the area? If that is so, didn't you already tell me this four times already?

This alert has me perplexed, Mr. Ridge, I don't know what you want me to do, other than to vote for Bush.