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New Cold War - Dr.K's Personal Paranoia Meter

This "New Cold War" Paranoia-Meter will help you track just how I paranoid I am feeling about the New Cold War.

Lets Explain the system:



I am chilled out because there is little threat of a New Cold War.

I don't commit criminal acts, and could not possibly be considered a terrorist or subversive threat in our free society.

I feel safe because I know that my democratically elected government and their representatives only have my interests at heart.



I am edgy because the border between acts of terrorism and acts of legitimate protest is being eroded daily.

Dissent is suppressed and commonplace acts of technological exploration are being punished by prison sentences.

Meanwhile we are governed by PR spin merchants who ensure that free speech is a distant memory.

In the New Cold War - truth is the first victim



I am nervous because nobody knows who "the enemy" is anymore.

I am starting to wonder whether we aren't ALL the enemy now.

I am starting to wonder whether I might not be the enemy after all.



I am worried and have burned all my books and deleted all my files.

I no longer discuss anything in public with strangers and only speak to my friends in private.

I am thinking of informing on myself so I can testify as chief witness with immunity from prosecution and start a new life under the witness protection program


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I am paranoid because I am being shot by both sides - everybody wants to shoot the messenger.

If Homeland Security don't get me then the Religious Police will. Even if they fail there are Mormons, Jehovahs's Witnesses and Templars who are out to get me ....

It looks like there is no place for filthy hippy atheist anarchist dissenters in the New Cold War and I am making a will.


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Posted by Dr. K on March 30, 2006 4:17 PM |

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,,1755302,00.html

US-style terror alerts for UK

MPs to recommend clearer public warnings in wake of London bombings

Richard Norton-Taylor and Oliver Burkeman in New York
Monday April 17, 2006
The Guardian

A cross-party committee investigating the background to the July 7 bombings is expected to recommend a transparent official public warning system for the threat posed by terrorist attacks. It would be similar to the kind that has proved controversial in America.

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Don't you feel safer already ?

Posted by: wtwu | April 17, 2006 12:21 PM

The Sunday Times is claiming that a US style public terror alert system is set to be announced in the UK in few days

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2261773,00.html

The Sunday Times July 09, 2006

MI5’s terror alert system to be made public
David Leppard
AN American-style warning system to describe the threat posed by terrorists to Britain is to be announced by the government in the next few days.

The precise level of threat from Al-Qaeda and other groups at any given time will be publicised on the official websites of MI5 and the Home Office.

At the same time the present complicated system, which is used internally by MI5, will be streamlined to make it easier for the public to understand. MI5 uses a seven- tiered threat level scheme ranging from “negligible” where an attack is “very unlikely”, through “severe (defined)” when an attack is “likely”, to “critical” when an attack is expected “imminently”.

Posted by: wtwu | July 9, 2006 1:47 AM

I hope they have some nice chiclets for my website - having all these alerts at my fingertips makes me feel safer and allows me to sleep soundly at night.

Posted by: drk | July 9, 2006 2:16 AM

The new UK Threat Level system has come into force today:

Threat Level SEVERE - now what are we supposed to do ?

Posted by: wtwu | August 1, 2006 9:53 AM