Terror Alert Overload

With the FDA today coming out to voice concern that terrorists will strike water, food, and drug supplies comes a dawning realization (one hopes) that this administration intends to batter the public to death with alerts now through the election. The rationale seems clear.

However, I'd like to think the public can be bright enough to a) realize the rationale and b) understand that at best, this is Cover-Your-Ass mentality at its worst and c) ask important questions like "Why the hell are we spending so much when nothing seems to be any more secure today than on 9-10-01?"

Granted, the airports check our shoes. But we've NEVER had a shoe-based attack. That fool from England in December '01 didn't come close to achieving his result, and there is little evidence what he had on him would have done more than smoke. In return, we're spending hundreds of billions of dollars protecting against sneaker attacks.

Does this sound intelligent to you?