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

["M. David Leonard" <mdl () equinox shaysnet com>]

        "There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action."


                                        Goethe



On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Vadim Antonov wrote:

> 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?