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Re: NJ: Red alert? Stay home, await word
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Wed Mar 19 23:03:26 2003
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 20:02:52 -0800 (PST)
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@kotovnik.com>
To: "J.A. Terranson" <measl@mfn.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0303191939210.20439-100000@greeves.mfn.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
There's only thing worse than government full of idiots: government
full of scared idiots.
--vadim
On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, J.A. Terranson wrote:
>
> On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Jeff Wasilko wrote:
>
> > 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?
>
>