NJ: Red alert? Stay home, await word
M. David Leonard
mdl at equinox.shaysnet.com
Thu Mar 20 14:01:05 UTC 2003
"There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action."
Goethe
On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Vadim Antonov wrote:
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> There's only thing worse than government full of idiots: government
> full of scared idiots.
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> --vadim
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> On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, J.A. Terranson wrote:
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> > On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Jeff Wasilko wrote:
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> > > 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."
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> > 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?
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> >
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