2003mar25. Threat level orange: Everyone’s a spy!. Related: The San Jose airport is now at THREAT LEVEL ORANGE which means that eight+ cops “examine” all incoming cars on the two-lane road via klieg lightbanks. They don’t stop the cars, they just look at you and your car very intently as you drive slowly by if they’re, you know, not just sitting there leaning against their patrol cars gabbing with each other (this was at 4:30am and 10:30pm, when airport traffic is light). If a terrorist was strapped to the underside of my vehicle, I’m sure someone might have seen it and removed him with a comically large wooden paddle or something. “Come on, you ... ”
