FC: "Red alert" means New Jerseyans may not leave their homes

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

Also see:
http://www.presstelegram.com/Stories/0,1413,204~21474~1251515,00.html
> WASHINGTON Should war with Iraq erupt, Southern Californians could find 
> themselves living in a world of restricted travel, constrained trade, 
> closed schools and public buildings, canceled events and hypersecurity.

-Declan

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Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 03:24:21 -0800
To: declan () well com
From: Mark <mark () oilempire us>
Subject: New Jersey says "red alert" means entire state must stay home - 
MARTIAL LAW

http://www.southjerseynews.com/issues/march/m031603e.htm
Red alert? Stay home, await word

Sunday, March 16, 2003

By TOM BALDWIN
Gannett State Bureau
TRENTON

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.

"This state is on top of it," said Sid Caspersen, New Jersey's director of 
the office of counter-terrorism.

Caspersen, a former FBI agent, was briefing reporters, alongside Gov. James 
E. McGreevey, on Thursday, when for the first time he disclosed the 
realities of how a red alert would shut the state down.

A red alert would also tear away virtually all personal freedoms to move 
about and associate.

"Red means all noncritical functions cease," Caspersen said. "Noncritical 
would be almost all businesses, except health-related."

A red alert means there is a severe risk of terrorist attack, according to 
federal guidelines from the Department of Homeland Security.

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