I would just like to say that we are all morons. What does the national terror level do for our country? Well, I think it's kind of like Britney Spears. A few months ago, I saw on MSNBC that Britney did an exclusive "candid" interview where she cried to Matt Lauer about being stalked by papparazi and the ridicule she endures for being "country" (read: bad mother). Immediately afterwards, Harper's Bazaar ran this photo on the cover of their magazine:

Did Britney have a reason to be the cover? No. She was simply knocked up--again. She doesn't have a new album coming out. She isn't doing another movie, or even a stupid music video. She was getting this much needed, and wholly unnecessary, publicity for absolutely nothing--well, maybe not absolutely nothing. She was (is) in desperate need of an image overhaul. (And I have to admit the naked cover photo is way more visually appealing than the horrendous preggie-pre-teen outfit she wore with Matt Lauer, so perhaps her fashion sense was also in need of rescue.)

So I deduce that the government does the same exact thing. When it needs some publicity, we get a jack to the threat level color code. What's the point of this? Is it to test the limit of civilian complacency? Or maybe it's to remind us that we're all in constant imminent danger from terrorists who want nothing more than to hijack our vacations and the government is the only one who can keep us safe? I have no idea.

But how much longer are we going to throw out our freakin' water bottles, lip gloss, sunscreen and shampoo in order to live under the facade of "security"? How is my parting with reading material or a frappucino going to ensure my or anyone else's survival? It makes no logical sense... Much in the same way as Britney Spears being on the cover of a magazine when she has no body of work to promote makes no logical sense.

Laura Yeager left four bottles of Gucci and Cartier perfume for the hotel maid before heading to the Atlanta airport for her flight back to Philadelphia. She still had to give up her lip gloss at the security checkpoint.

She just shrugged and tossed it. "It's better to feel safe. We thought it was going to be a lot worse."

It's already worse. Are these terror plots real or is the government seeing how much the public is willing to swallow?

Kathy McMahon, 49, of Mill Valley, Calif., was frantically helping her daughter stuff sunscreen, makeup, contact lens solution and other liquids into every corner of her half-dozen suitcases to be checked as she headed off to college.

"I think it's ridiculous," McMahon said. "But we'll do it anyway. What are you going to do?"

I wonder what the public will do when American citizens start getting "re-located" to "safe houses" or when citizens' business and houses begin to be seized for "security purposes" a la Japanese Internment Camps. I've known people whose families were thrown into poverty from those camps, and it kills me to think we might be heading down the same road, except with different rhetoric.

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