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RE: NJ: Red alert? Stay home, await word
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deepak Jain)
Wed Mar 19 20:53:15 2003
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From: "Deepak Jain" <deepak@ai.net>
To: "J.A. Terranson" <measl@mfn.org>, "Jeff Wasilko" <jeffw@smoe.org>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 20:52:13 -0500
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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."
>
>
> 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
