According to BBC News the Home Secretary John Reid has announced that Britain is to get a Terror Threat Level system similar to that used in the US published by the Department of Homeland Security.
A new warning system is to alert the public to the threat of attacks by al-Qaeda and other terror groups.
From 1 August, details of current threat levels will be published on the websites of the Home Office and MI5, Home Secretary John Reid announced.
Great! Just what we really need, yet another channel for the government to terrify the public with.
Any alert system is useless unless those people that are being alerted have corresponding duties or actions to perform upon receiving such an alert for example on a warship. A threat level indicator for the general public can therefore have no value as there is no corresponding action that the public can perform.
