Red alert: The elections are coming

By Elmer Norman, Davenport | Monday, August 14, 2006

It’s election time again. “Keep them scared, they will follow,” is this administration’s policy.

Why is Homeland Security a red flag alert only at election time? Orange, red, amber, green, wolf, wolf the terrorists are here. After elections, no more alert.

We haven’t heard these scare tactics from this administration since the last election. Who created Homeland Security? Was it this administration? These scare tactics have worked for them in the past. Why stop now? Then tell us we got it from a reliable source and it’s classified — we can’t divulge our source for security reasons.

Or is it just scare tactics by this administration, as usual, at election time? Making us think this is up-to-date info. Then finding out that information was three or four years old and NOT reliable or classified.

What is the truth? We don’t know what to believe.

Elmer Norman

Davenport