Winter Patriot Community Blog

Yay, Winter! You've been sorely missed. Great to see you back, and another fine post. Thank you! The Israelis ought to understand that there is a basic human reflex that says if a little dog constantly runs away from people and cowers in corners in terror, eventually the wrong person is going to come along, get pissed off, and kick the cur. Perennial "victims" should make sure not to overdo it, lest it come true. Mind you, I'm certainly not a violent man, but have observed violent people all around with horror for years, and know full well that they're still here. Nor am I anti-Semitic - for Pete's sake, my son-in-law is a Palestinian, as Semitic as they come, and he and my daughter have two wonderful sons. In fact, there actually aren't all that many Semitic Israelis. If anything, Israel is acting anti-Semitically by trying to subject the Palestinians to genocide. No, I'm anti-Zionist, and have nothing to be sorry for, and I'm really sick and tired of ADL tactics, casting aspersions on all of us. Put that in your pipes and smoke it, ADLers! Anti-Semitic indeed!

Again, welcome back, Winter! I hope your hands are feeling better, and that you can comfortably listen to music these days.

Best wishes from Free Prague!

Whats a guy to do? immunity from screaming the word terrorism occurred.
Fear of new ideas needed to replace non working old ideas.
If they could use fear of peanut butter to control the masses they would.

Brilliant article WP. Real shame this is reality though. Thanks for comming out in the cold weather you are experiencing i.e. ( health problems )

...terror alert levels are, by their very nature, useless for any purpose other than propaganda and fear-stoking? Honestly, does anyone with half a brain expect the terror alert levels to ever be reduced to say, "Hey, we're not even looking for terrorists today, so confident are we that no attack can happen?" There's not even a chance that they will EVER lowered to even, "Hey, an attack is possible but I doubt it" or "Hmmm, it might or might not happen." These levels may as well not even exist because no official with half a brain would ever announce such things publicly and risk having an attack happen while the level was so low or being accused of being "soft on terror" or "asleep at the switch".

So it follows that the only levels that really have any chance of ever being used are "OMFG, I'm friggin' scared" and "Holy !sht, we're all gonna die!" Logically, that means that "OMFG, I'm friggin' scared!" is the de facto lowest alert level. So we're always friggin scared except in those special moments when we're certain we're all gonna die.

Uh-oh. It looks like I answered my own question. If "OMFG, I'm friggin' scared" is the new lowest level, that means Britain really is slacking on terror. They've lowered the level to it's logical minimum. Those bastards!

-ep