When does it become completely obvious that all of these warnings are made to scare people? The Department of Homeland Security has issued one of its trademark non-warning Warning:

Al Qaeda plans a large-scale attack on the United States “in an effort to disrupt the democratic process” before November’s elections, Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said today. Ridge said U.S. officials have no precise knowledge of the time, place or method of attack, but said they are “actively working to gain that knowledge.”

You can read Ridge’s full comments here. The Best line has to be:

And we will be monitoring ­ via web-enabled perimeter cameras ­ chemical facilities of greatest concern. The cameras will link to our Homeland Security Operations Center ­ they provide one piece of the real-time data I spoke about earlier ­ and more are due to come online by the end of the year.

Webcams? Our nations is under the protection of webcams. Everyone knows how great webcams are, you definitely can tell what’s going on via a webcam. What is wrong with these people?