{"id":2897,"date":"2009-12-28T17:55:53","date_gmt":"2009-12-28T22:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=2897"},"modified":"2009-12-28T17:55:53","modified_gmt":"2009-12-28T22:55:53","slug":"the-colors-of-cowardice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/2897\/the-colors-of-cowardice\/","title":{"rendered":"The Colors of Cowardice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forget Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/realclearpolitics.blogs.time.com\/2009\/12\/28\/heckuva-job-janet\/\" target=\"_blank\">bungled response<\/a> to the would-be Detroit airline bomber.\u00a0 According to <em>Slate<\/em>\u2019s Christopher Hitchens the bigger fiasco was the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2239935\/\" target=\"_blank\">bureaucratic stasis<\/a> substituted for swift action in the aborted bombing\u2019s aftermath.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It was reported over the weekend that in the aftermath of the Detroit fiasco, no official decision was made about whether to raise the designated &#8220;threat level&#8221; from orange. Orange! Could this possibly be because it would be panicky and ridiculous to change it to red and really, really absurd to lower it to yellow? But isn&#8217;t it just as preposterous (and revealing), immediately after a known Muslim extremist has waltzed through every flimsy barrier, to leave it just where it was the day before?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If this is true, the color-coded \u201cthreat level\u201d system should be scrapped.\u00a0 It is doubtful anyone feels safe under any color.\u00a0 Per Hitchens, most Americans know that precious little can be done to prevent a murderer from succeeding if he intends to die in the process.\u00a0 While not an argument to do nothing, this realization should prompt DHS big wigs to do better PR than announce a new color scheme or disrobement policy. \u00a0Americans deserve more from their government than prophylactic policies that seek to prevent the last terrorist\u2019s security breach.\u00a0 As Hitchens details though, anything else would be unprecedented.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forget Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano\u2019s bungled response to the would-be Detroit airline bomber.\u00a0 According to Slate\u2019s Christopher Hitchens the bigger fiasco was the bureaucratic stasis substituted for swift action in the aborted bombing\u2019s aftermath. It was reported over the weekend that in the aftermath of the Detroit fiasco, no official decision was made about whether [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[677,678,516],"class_list":["post-2897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-christopher-hitchens","tag-homeland-security","tag-janet-napolitano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2897"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2901,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2897\/revisions\/2901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}