I said I would get back with more information from the powers that be.

I know I do not have to worry about any color alert.  I live too far away
from a major city and my town is too small for any terrorist to spend
their wad on it.  If there is a nuclear threat, well I’d be just as doomed
as anyone in the area.  Best thing to do is to get as far away from the
epicenter of the nuclear explosion and with the direction of the
prevailing wind..  But then you always have fall out. 

Our family HSD officer sent me the following link that will tell you
pretty much everything about the color codes and what ought to be
done. 
http://www.dhs.gov/files/programs/Copy_of_press_release_0046.shtm

I navigated to the different sites from the links at the Homeland
Security Advisory System site.  They cover everything from
recommended activities to emergency kits and emergency plans
specific to a person’s location that is also downloadable. 

It seemed adequate but what still bothers me is there is not a guided
civilian program and the color codes are probably all right even up to
orange but when there is red alert I think people will panic because
they have not had any practice.  This advisory looks just like a
Republican philosophical plan where everyone is responsible for
themselves and the hell with people who don’t know how to be
responsible or doesn’t have a computer.  Guess they will qualify for the
casualty report, which any red alert always has to have!  Is that
sarcasm, yes!

I plan on discussing this further with our colonel.

@ Folktruther

The US now has two hundred thousand SECRET operatiaves in the military-polce intelligence agencies, reporting to the White House.  This exclusive of the visible police and military.

So much for the idea that Obama was going to bring change. Where’s Rachel Maddow on this skull cracking in Pittsburgh?

Sorry folks, got it wrong on the last post. The puppet said to the puppeteer in reply to being asked if he was terrified. “I wouldn’t be so terrified if you got your hand out of my arse”. Now it makes more sense, working from memory here!

Being aware of ones surroundings is most expeditious. Living in fear is not.  You know people of London got their Knickers taken to the cleaners during WWII and they refuse to live in fear now as then.

My favorite is a picture of a puppeteer in London, with a hand puppet, the puppet saying to the Puppeteer. “I would not give a fuck if you would get your hand out of my ass”.

While waiting for the family expert to get back to me, I googled this
question:
What US civil defense program is there when the alerts go from yellow
to orange then to red? and from what I can tell, it is pretty lame.  I see
no defined and systematic program that the population ought to be
readied to act on.  There are advices saying various municipalities
should set up a program.  I think that is really lame.  It is downright
stupid.  But just as I suspected, I did see one site that called the color
alert system, fearmongerinig.  Another way the public could be trained
on what to do is to enlist the Veterans of Wars to set up a program and
administer it.  Not a volunteer group, one that is paid by the
government.  Course that would also bring down the house by the
“fiscally concerned.”  Anything else is sheer madness!  It will be
interesting to learn from youngest offspring what is the situation.  I
think we TDers ought to have a plan if there is no system in place.  Well
we know there isn’t or we would have heard about it.  That kind of
pisses me off.  Doesn’t it piss you off?  How about Leefeller?  What do
you think about all of this Leefeller?  Didn’t you say you were a
Veteran.  Course he isn’t here so I’m talking to a ghost. Well, we are all
ghosts too!  There are lots of ex-military on the TD forums.  Maybe
they will chime in on this????

You are right, Louise.  I will ask my kid about it, who is in charge of
all the airports, coastlines, and trains (a crazy was caught on the train just
the other day with bomb materials).  I really will see what the horse’s
mouth has to say about the training.  Course the guvamint could begin
such a program and there will be a horde of critics who say ‘Merika is
acting paranoid.  But I think the old Civil Defense program is a good
model.  I will get back to this forum about what they say about it.  I
always felt there was something missing from this whole alert system. 
Thank you for bringing to my attention.  I don’t think the Bushmen ever
talked about what people ought to do if the alert went to orange or then
to red!  Yikes.  This is serious.

Shenonymous,

Use to be in South Korea warning sirens went off on a regular daily basis. The purpose to have the populace prepared for a possible attack from North Korea. Then one day somebody noticed no-one did anything different when the sirens sounded. Point being, a better, more effective way for the populace to be prepared was developed. Like individuals and individual groups learning preparedness, self-defense and survival skills.

When I see the sign I think of the siren. It’s good that we have a department of Homeland Defense. But it isn’t to good if no-one knows anything but what a color means. I think back to when we had simple Civil Defense, and the very real classes, and training every civilian had access to, to better prepare themselves for anything bad that might happen. From outside attack to earthquake, fire, flood or famine. I think Homeland Security would benefit from doing a study of the long gone Civil Defense, and how they organized and prepared folks all across the country.

knowing what a color means, doesn’t mean squat if no-one knows what to do if the color changes.

Paracelsus, The Pittsburgh occupation by military combat units and police, and the weapons deployed against the American people under Obama, escalates the military-police state initated by the Bushites. This is the future response of the US power stsructure in meeting demos.

The US now has two hundred thousand SECRET operatiaves in the military-polce intelligence agencies, reporting to the White House.  This exclusive of the visible police and military.

Funded by 75 billion dollars, much more than the entire militry budget of China, it makes Congress and the Suprreme Court, and the electoral system, a superfluous sideshow to White House rule.  and the White House only takes seriously the policies of the plutocracy.

Since one of my kids is a colonel for Homeland Security, I get the skinny
allowed to be divulged.  You people are really stupid know-nothings. 
Better be thankful you have a country that gives a f’ about your safety.  If
it is yellow forever that is a good thing.  Better take cover when it’s
orange, and start praying to your god, if you have one, when it gets to
red, but don’t expect any salvation unless the ‘Merkins’ save your ass.

How many of you real clowns in Truthdipperland would like to see the
United States of ‘Merka’ destroyed?  Yup, I knew it.

knute,
“We’ll Geeze - Can’t someone go over and kick it…Its obviously stuck.”

~~~

Well yuh, duh. But it wont get kicked ‘cause it’s kinda like when you stick duct tape over a crack in the glass. After a while you get so used to looking at the tape you forget the glass is cracked.

Someday, a few years down the road, someones going to look at that sign and ask what’s that for anyway? Then following an internal study by someoneorother, and after it’s decided nobody knows for sure, they’ll put a beer add over it and life will go on.

This whole terrorist alert system seems designed to do two things.

One: To make it seem as if the government were doing something about terrorist attacks (when, in reality, probably not much can be done that’s effective).

Two: To scare (or is it “terrorize”) citizens into doing things against their own interest, like voting for Republicans.

Finally, like, what the heck are we supposed to do when the terrorist threat is orange or yellow or red? Run around screaming? Start searching under our beds?

The system’s a mess. It should be scrapped.

When you consider that the chance of being killed by
terrorists is much higher than your chance of winning
the lottery it is hard to care.
George W. Bush lost the war on terror by feeding the
fear that the terrorists wanted to instill.

The public would rather have seen a threat level to Bin
Laden. Oh right that would have have stayed at zip
point nada, no justification to attack the constitution
there.

I know exactly where the Dept of Homeland Security should “Stick” the terror alert system.

Does anybody care about the weapons and soldiers being used in Pittsburgh against peaceful protesters? Most of the tactics resemble those used Iraq against its citizens. There are even sound cannons that were the same as used in Iraq. This site should be triviadig.com

The the American Gov,reminds me of the slew of terrorist related arrests lately. Good investigators wait till they have a case then they make arrests. However, political expediency has been the case for starting.

There is no national threat level. These clowns don’t know any more than the guy standing behind the cash register at your local liquor store. The national threat level is: Cash your paycheck, pay a couple bills, stall off the bigger ones, get yourself a twelve pack and hope that you’ve still got a job on Monday.