Per Drudge comes this New Year’s Eve advisory from Rep. Christopher Shays, who apparently isn’t out to make friends with the tourism industry:
Republican Rep. Christopher Shays, however, said people ought to avoid places like Times Square, calling it irresponsible for officials to make people think they don’t need to take precautions.
“Secretary Ridge says just do what you normally do,” Shays said. “If normally you go to Times Square, I wouldn’t do what you normally do. I wouldn’t go into places when you’re packed and where if there was panic, a lot of injuries would take place.”
I don’t know how great the threat at Times Square is, but props to Shays for not feeding us the same old act-normal-but-be-alert line.