NJ: Red alert? Stay home, await word

Thu Mar 20 01:52:13 UTC 2003

> > http://www.southjerseynews.com/issues/march/m031603e.htm
> > 
> > If the nation escalates to "red alert," which is the highest in
> > the color-coded readiness against terror, you will be assumed by
> > authorities to be the enemy if you so much as venture outside
> > your home, the state's anti-terror czar says.
> > 
> > ...
> 
> "You literally are staying home, is what happens, unless you are 
> required to 
> be out. No different than if you had a state of emergency with a
> snowstorm." 
> 
> 
> Except that in a snow storm, I can go out if I want to, and not 
> face criminal
> liability.  Are they planning to at least go through the farce of 
> declaring
> martial law first? 
> 

Seems like a pretty steep step between "Orange" and "Red".

Are other states taking this position?

Deepak Jain
AiNET