Mary Foster's Eminent Domain Threat Meter

Immediately following the 9/11 terrorist attack, the Bush Administration trotted out the handy Threat Meter. This system of mind control can be used in many ingenious ways. I have customized it for my friend, Mary Foster.

There is no better way to control people than to make them feel threatened. You can threaten them with words, you can threaten to physically harm them, or you can threaten to take away or damage their property. Do you remember how scared we all were when they would raise it and lower it every day. Do you remember watching too much TV? But then the Bush administration and the media stopped issuing daily threat levels after people stopped paying attention.

While properties have not been taken away from a private entity in Peekskill for years, Mary Foster's attempt to make Eminent Domain an election year issue is her way to threaten and 'activate' business owners in Peekskill.

Earlier this year, someone else used the Threat Meter to scare residents of Bohlman Towers into believing their apartments would be sold to a private developer and converted into condos. We all remember how well that threat worked, we were there for the City Council Meeting and the subsequent uproar until they all figured out that the threat wasn't real.

The Threat Meter: another thing that Mary Foster can learn from George Bush.