It reassures me to know that i am not the only one who realizes the frauds and manipulations the government continues to feed us are false and for political gain only. If only society was like it was in the 60’s and 70’s when people freely protested dumbasses elected into office and protested obvious political flaws. Americans dont do enough for their freedom anymore. We should be more active. Cause a stir. Give our government a reason to be scared. Our government sure didnt mind scaring us did they? We as americans need to unite and educate ourselves on the reality of our government. Daily we are fed lies and accept them because we “trust” in our president to do good for the country. Think about what isnt told on the daily news. That you should be afraid of-not a orange terror threat that is a figment of the government’s imagination used to distract us from what really matters. If you know what is going on in your country, you should feel obligated to do something about it. Dont just sit back and wait for someone else to do it for you. At the rate our country is going, imagine what it will be like 50 years from now.

Scary.

It is upsetting because terror alerts scare the public.  This should have never been used to promote a political agenda.

So Ridge didn’t IMMEDIATELY reveal the other Bushies pressured him to misuse the terror alert system for political purposes?  (yawn)  I can name on 1 hand the number of appointees who’ve ever done anything that courageous.  Talking heads and commenters on blogs apparently are already spinning this so the guy who stood up to Rummy & Ashcroft and refused to unnecessarily scare the crap out of the public is the villain in this plot.  Typical damage control BS.  The biased MSM will attack Ridge for waiting, but since most of them spin and distort the truth every day for a living, I take their self-righteous indignation for what is really is- partisan posturing. 

What if Ridge had spoken out immediately and told us what we already knew anyway?  Bushies like Blackstone in Ohio were busy stealing the election.  And the mainstream media was busy spreading BS Repub lies about Kerry’s truly heroic service in Vietnam.  The MSM (esp AP) would have obligingly, nay, GLADLY reported all the nasty attacks on Ridge that the Repubs wanted them to .....  just like they’re all lining up to do now.

I hear Cheney just unfriended this jerk on his Facebook page, and stopped following him on Twitter.

Ridge should probably decline all future Dick Vader quail hunting invitations.

The American masses’ fear, ignorance, and superstition are the life-bloods of politics and religion.

The whole 9/11 terrorism attack was a planned conspiracy. How come all of a sudden the middle east wants to write off america? The idea was just too good. Oil is a important resource for America being we consume so much of it. We just needed some reason to get in there and grab ahold of it. Bush Sr. had already made an effort to get in there and Bush Jr. was the man he needed to carry out his plan. Why is it that as soon as 9/11 happened we invaded Afghanistan and then transferred to Iraq and stayed there? For weapons? it was already decided that there werent any weapons. If you think about it, the whole story sounds just like-a story. Now the Americans hate Muslims and we dont even realize how much control the government has over us-or will have.  Think about what is happening. Who is the president working for? For us? or for the rich?

I’m still having a hard time believing that the twin towers came down due to the jets flying into them. The jet fuel had burned hours before the towers collapsed into themselves just like a neatly planned demolition. And building seven was not even hit and it imploded shortly thereafter. And the scene was never treated as a crime scene as it should have; the debris was quickly swept up and destroyed and even sent over seas so there could be no real investigation. Too many questions that have never been answered. And look how far a very inept president got with this tragedy. Two wars and winning another election.

Since these new expansions on the US government (i.e. the Homeland Security Defense) can be used politically to pursuade people to vote Republican, no wonder why Bush wanted to expand government.

Also, who’s to say now that this whole governmental collapse and the 700 billion dollar package simply wasn’t an attempt by Bush to get Mccain elected into office!!??

What a crack of lies.

Give me “F’ing” break! There must be some type of genetic test given to government workers and politicians before they are hired or take office to make sure they are predisposed to book writing and public speaking confessions. You do not find this in the private sector and especially you do not find people spouting out about past meetings and conversations where there is only conjecture and speculation about what really happened. Politicians and government workers live in a world that is neither reality or fiction. They find it impossible to state facts as they truly are or happened. In their world everything is twisted between truth and fiction and impossible to separate.

Sure, they exploited America’s utter post 9/11 paranoia for the most base political reasons. Ridge’s book is not news. The only thing newsworthy is the fact that someone who was in the know is finally admitting it. He should have written his book five years ago.

I knew what was going on in the hours leading up to the election of 2004. It was so freaking obvious, you had to be an idiot to miss it.

On the first posting on my blog on June 2, 2006, I wrote the following:

“PREDICTION: George W. Bush will be remembered in history, primarily, as the first (pray last) former chief executive to go to federal prison. Sound crazy? Stay tuned.”

I stand by those words.

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Tom Degan
Goshen, NY

Well, we all knew that was the case, ...now the Homeland Security Czar or whatever at the time says its so, its amazing how all these republican enablers were closet authors…..but Bush is still flying to lucrative speaking engagements. Cheney is working on his book and his version of reality, a world where most every ideal we thought was important is meaningless unless it creats a profit.  I guess its just more of Bizzaro World where nothing has to make sense and we all have little electronic gadgets in our hands to entertain us.

How unconscious did anyone have to be to miss the fact that color coded states of fear were not useful in any security sense, and their sole purpose was obviously the manipulation of the public?

My cynicism protects me from believing foolishness.  How does a JOURNALIST avoid becoming a cynic?

A little late now isn’t it Tom Ridge? you should be arrested along with the rest of them.

Not exactly a surprise. I was much more interested in
rain probabilities than the silly assed Terror Threat
System.

Maybe you folks missed it, but the entire Terror Threat Alert System was, itself, a manipulation.