Homeland Fries

By Roy D. Follendore III

May 26, 2002

And now for the Homeland Security Forecast.

"There is a code yellow next week as scuba diving terrorist are expected to attack. The following week will be code blue as the expected plot to deliver biological agents into city drinking supplies by bird poop is further analyzed. For this code red weekend we can expect windsailing terrorists to attempt to catch breezes into major harbors, followed by a cycle of juggling mimes which are expected along all of Americas borders."

Has anyone in governmental power got enough sense to see that even if all of this were true, the general population does not need to have it presented as though it were all inevitable like some terrorist weather report. We simply need to quietly fix the problems, not announce the possibilities to all doom seers and would be booby headed copy cats. To do otherwise is to promote and publicize those with radical ideals and create an environment where the reality that we do not desire takes precedence over the future that we do. If we are to continue to take seriously the true risks of modern civilization then those risks should not be allowed to constantly distract us from our goals and our vision for a better world. Knowledge may be power but over familiarity breeds the ignorance of contempt.

Oh yeah, by the way, would you like Homeland Fries with that?

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