{"id":10386,"date":"2009-08-07T01:35:18","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T08:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/?p=10386"},"modified":"2010-08-26T17:56:40","modified_gmt":"2010-08-27T00:56:40","slug":"america-needs-a-more-effective-warning-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/america-needs-a-more-effective-warning-system\/","title":{"rendered":"America Needs A More Effective Warning System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has appointed a 17-member board to review and evaluate the Homeland Security Advisory System, the familiar, if often ignored, five-color terror-alert warning. The system is long overdue for review and should be improved.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Editor&#8217;s Note &#8211;  I agree that there are long overdue changes needed to the current Homeland Security advisory system. But as pointed out, that doesn&#8217;t necessarily mean getting rid of the color-coded system. The color coded system is an widely recognized and could be very useful if specific actions were tied directly to the threat level. I also agree that the appearance or potential opportunity to use it politically needs to removed. A neutral agency or organization could administer the alert according to a very specific criteria, removing any doubt from the public&#8217;s mind as to the actual severity of the threat.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The system was established in March 2002 as a readiness measure for state and local law enforcement and the public generally.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2009\/aug\/06\/terror-alert-gray\/\">Read Full Editorial<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/eon.businesswire.com\/news\/eon\/20100623006622\/en\">NALEO Releases Final Logistics for Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano Keynote Speech at Annual Conference<\/a> (eon.businesswire.com)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/r.zemanta.com\/?u=http%3A\/\/www.cnn.com\/2010\/POLITICS\/06\/23\/immigration.borders\/index.html&amp;a=19885077&amp;rid=73e9d861-8e3c-4cf9-94aa-41e476c46a4d&amp;e=5bcffc0520b707777bb62f4fe0afa618\">Napolitano presses for immigration reform and border security<\/a> (cnn.com)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/08\/13\/janet-napolitano-calls-ta_n_681490.html\">Janet Napolitano Calls Talk Of Repealing Birthright Citizenship &#8216;Just Wrong&#8217;<\/a> (huffingtonpost.com)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=73e9d861-8e3c-4cf9-94aa-41e476c46a4d\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><span class=\"zem-script more-related pretty-attribution\"><script src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has appointed a 17-member board to review and evaluate the Homeland Security Advisory System, the familiar, if often ignored, five-color terror-alert warning. The system is long overdue for review and should be improved. Editor&#8217;s Note &#8211; I agree that there are long overdue changes needed to the current Homeland Security [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[700],"tags":[3450,1246,1869,1095,3224,4985,3227,1980,1068,3226,270,1015,1513],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10386"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10386"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23268,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10386\/revisions\/23268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}