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


From: "Deepak Jain" <deepak () ai net>
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 20:52:13 -0500


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


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