Ridge to urge faster planning against terror

[radfringe]

Ridge to urge faster planning against terror
Spokesman: Analysis, not threat, driving security push
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/04/18/ridge.terror/index.html
From Jeanne Meserve --CNN Washington Bureau
Monday, April 19, 2004 Posted: 3:58 AM EDT (0758 GMT)

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge is expected to call Monday for an acceleration of plans to prepare for a terrorist attack because of several forthcoming high-profile events that could give terrorists a chance to strike.

Ridge is scheduled to speak to the opening session of the Radio and Television News Directors Association in Las Vegas, Nevada, at 7:15 a.m. (10:15 a.m. ET).

A spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security said Ridge's call would be issued to national, state and local authorities with an eye toward these events:

Dedication of the World War II Memorial on the Washington Mall, May 29.

Group of Eight economic summit on Sea Island, Georgia, June 8-10.

Independence Day, July 4.

Democratic National Convention in Boston, Massachusetts, July 26-29.

Republican National Convention in New York, August 30-September 2.

Labor Day weekend, September 4-6.

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Looks like "shark attacks" will be bumped off the news in favor of "terra-lerts"

[drfemoe]

1. Somehow

this gives me the creepy feeling that they will want to lock us down as part of their "security" strategy. Some cities continue to try to throw up legal blockades to peaceful assembly on these dates.

What have we WON if we lose our freedom?

[maddezmom]

2. "Ridge Forms New Terrorism Task Force"

http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/T/TERRORISM_TASK_FORCE?SITE=FLPAP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

another task force? :eyes:

[oneighty]

3. Ridge

could use a faster brain. He seems to be a really slow incomplete thinker. Sort of George* like.

IMHO

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