Ridge held another in a series of the administration’s “scare conferences” in which the American people are told “terrorists are out to get you, but we can’t (or won’t) tell you where or when. So, be scared, and vote Bush.”

This stuff is straight out of 1984. Keep the public scared, but don’t give them any information. There was nothing new, and in fact all Tom Ridge confirmed is that if the terrorists are working on an evil plot we don’t know about it.

The threat level remains yellow- though I think the threat scale is just another device to manipulate the American people, it’s telling that they never bother increasing the threat level.