PsycheDelia

maybe, just maybe, this time they got it right. the alert goes to orange and yale goes boom...

practice makes perfect maybe...

Hubble head

Are you implying that you hope there is an attack on yale? That's kinda sick, eh?

Grumpy

Incorrect verb tense. Yale went boom.

Calzaer

Who was it that said "If you make enough predictions, a few of them are going to be correct"? It seems rather relevant here.

Although the Yale bombing has all the hallmarks of a domestic terrorist attack and none of the signs of aQ.

twisted brother

OK, I am a cynic, but I haven't seen one post here that claims to know or even believe that the precautions taken when the threat level is raised benefits anyone.
As someone who works with first responders all day, and who sits on top of one of the biggest soft targets in the southern US, I find most of the comments in this thread ignorant, arrogant and quite a few pretty fucking sick.
I personally appreciate having fewers wackos toodling through my soft target, fewer false alarms because of white powder and unattended packages, and better support in place when something does happen.
Now, this may all be one silly political game, but the fact is there have been numerous terrorist attacks on the US (count Twin Towers, Pentagon, Pennsylvania, but also anthrax several places, and hearken back to OK city). Whether Al Qaeda or McVeigh and Nichols, or some demented military scientist, the precautions that take place that apparently no one in this thread is aware of are helping protect all of us.
And a little bloody inconvenience to drivers at the border is irrelevant. We should have had better border security for a long time now.

Koiyotnik

During this whole fiasco with the transport problems in Windsor (and I'm sure in Sarnia and over in the West), I have yet to see any single threat cross over the Ambassador bridge via tractor trailers.

Better border security? Yes, but that depends on which side you're talking about, really.

Based on what I've said, I cannot possibly see how my sympathy for the truck drivers is ignorant, arrogant, or "pretty fucking sick."

Maybe you can find something credible to terrorism that's occured at the Ambassador Bridge to change my mind.

paul30

I believe the quote "warnings" are not warnings at all, but announcements designed to scare people.

Notice that they are never specific. "We KNOW there will be an attack. We don't know where. We don't know when. We don't know how. We don't know who. But we KNOW there will be one."

Well, as several have noted, this is completely unhelpful.

It is simply designed to spread paranoia.

The ultimate goal is to get US citizens to mistrust each other, and in fact trust no one--but the government.

That way they can bamboozle you into giving up your rights and freedoms in the name of some illusory "security."

Soon you have all the "security" of a jail cell.

Jimmy Higgins

Yeah, the lack of injuries is very telling on that. NExt thing you know, cherry bombs in the toliet will receiver FBI attention.

Hubble head

Twisted Bro, no one wants an attack -here or anywhere.

But it is now apparently obvious that we all must suffer from anxiety or fear of more attacks, no matter where we live or work as evidenced by these blanket fear warnings. Is it right that everyone be given a reason to fear just because a few have a very vague idea that something might possibly be attempted somewhere in the world?

My heart goes out to all the first responders going through the motions of disaster preparedness and others unfortunate enough to find themselves worried about where they spend most of their time because it's now a "target". But your fear is your fear.

PsycheDelia

nope, that is not what i implied at all. i just meant that they have raised and lowered the terror alert so often over the past few months and this is the first time that something actually happened. i posted that AFTER the news of the explosion at yale, so i wasn't really HOPING for anything, just commenting on the incident. even though i personally do not think the yale attack had anything to do with osama, al qaeda et al.