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Originally posted by Rolo@Aug 22 2004, 05:45 PM
Ofcourse it is, however its also their duty to alert people if there is a threat... and I would rather have 10 falsh alerts, then missing the 1 alert, which was real.

Now, if Alex is correct, then the alerts should drop, if Kerry becomes president - on the other hand, then it would make sense for terrorists to shatter any "safe" feeling people might get from a new president in power... the question will be - how will people react, when Kerry has issued 10 falsh terrorist alerts as president? Will they say he is doing this because of credible intelligence, or so he will look "strong", or maybe he will be presented as a president who has "no control" of the situation... character killing can be slow and painful, but once Kerry sits in the oval office, then the negative spin will be on him - sometimes the job of a leader is to choose between two evils - in this case issue a alert or do nothing...

does anyone, honestly, feel safer more or less, dependant on the color of the alert? Does anyone look over their shoulder more than usual? I think the extra police and dogs and guns are good enough.