Re: NJ: Red alert? Stay home, await word

[Vadim Antonov <avg () kotovnik com>]

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?