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Tom Ridge
Director of Homeland Security
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
Dear Mr. Ridge,
I hope you catch Bin Laden soon because I'm
not sleeping well these days. Probably none of us are. I
know Attorney General Ashcroft isn't. He's got deep circles
under his eyes—he looks terrible. I suggested that
he take a vacation, but maybe you ought to tell him—he
might listen to you more than he would to me.
Anyway, the reason I'm writing is I don't
think this color coded Advisory System is working. Everybody
I talk to is confused. We don't know what to do different
if it's yellow or orange, or just how prepared we should
be during each color. Also, you probably forgot that a lot
of people are color-blind, and not only that, different
people see colors differently. My wife and I, for instance,
we're always arguing over what's blue and what's green.
(I don't mean fighting—we usually don't get in fist
fights about it, we just have a difference of opinion, that's
all.)
Anyway, I have a system that I think would
work much better. You could have faces that would show the
different alert levels. Everybody can relate to facial expressions—that
would tell us so much more than colors.
Here's the idea. What do you think?
Carl Estrada
P.O. Box 97
Waldport, OR 97394
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