colorblindness for the blue hues

The New York Times today says that The Crayonmasters at Homeland Security are getting a newer, tigher leash, in an attempt to make them less trigger-happy to raise the terror alert level from yellow to orange. As the article correctly points out, since the implementation of this Berlin-and-Kay inspired system (green/blue=calm, red=blazing inferno with subsequent and inevitable death in said blazing inferno), the terror level has been bouncing between yellow and orange, with the other colors as incomprehensible and imperceptable to our government's vision as they would be to a dog's eye. They name-reference some New Jersey democrat who is happy about this, possibly in an attempt to balance the fact that it was Sid Casperson, director of New Jersey's office of counter-terrorism who, to ACLU's horror briefed the Gannet State Bureau this March how Code Red would work: "Red means all noncritical functions cease. Noncritical would be almost all businesses, except health-related." He elaborated, "The state police and emergency management people would take control over the highways." This means you literally are staying at home: what we're saying is, 'Everybody sit down.' If you are left standing, you are probably a terrorist."

Seemingly good, right? Someone is pushing for more responsibility when it comes to spinning Wheel of Terror (pretty colors!) But the news is like the Matrix, and when you read it for a while, you can see the code. What this story literally says, to me, at least, is that after this new "better" and more "responsible" approach is substantially profiled in the AP, this will give BushCo a greater leeway to engage in a few more rounds of "boy who cried wolf" with freshly manufactured cred supporting the quickly-rotting infrastructure. This should come in handy when the jaundiced terror level will blush, come the elections next November.