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Homeland Lockdown: "Red Alert" = Martial Law
by TOM BALDWIN
Tuesday, Mar. 18, 2003 at 2:42 PM
FBI and other federal officials in NJ outline Homeland [In]Security's "Red Alert" response: it will mean Martial Law.
Red Alert would end some personal freedoms
Published by the Gannett State Bureau 3/15/03
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, 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 non-critical functions cease," Caspersen said. "Non-critical 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.
"The state will restrict transportation and access to critical locations," says the state's new brochure on dealing with terrorism.
"You must adhere to the restrictions announced by authorities and prepare to evacuate, if instructed. Stay alert for emergency messages."
Caspersen went further than the brochure. "The government agencies would run at a very low threshold," he said.
"The state police and the emergency management people would take control over the highways.
"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."
"The reason being is, what we're saying is, 'Everybody sit down!'
"If you are left standing, you are probably a terrorist. And if you are not law enforcement or emergency response; That's how we're going to catch you.
"You're not going to have a seat to go to.
"That is the basic premise of it."
www.c-n.com/gsbr/story/0,21421,706996,00.html
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AUTHOR |
DATE |
| Resource: Surviving Martial Law |
Pat Henry |
Tuesday, Mar. 18, 2003 at 2:43 PM |
| Not shocked. |
Cloak And Dagger |
Tuesday, Mar. 18, 2003 at 3:52 PM |
| Hmmm |
MadMaxim |
Tuesday, Mar. 18, 2003 at 4:03 PM |
| Irony |
Disbelief |
Tuesday, Mar. 18, 2003 at 4:57 PM |
| kinda makes you feel like a chump for voting for Bush |
Sheepdog |
Tuesday, Mar. 18, 2003 at 5:05 PM |
| This |
IS FUNNY |
Tuesday, Mar. 18, 2003 at 5:05 PM |
| what? |
kire |
Tuesday, Mar. 18, 2003 at 5:08 PM |
| Funny |
Disbelief |
Tuesday, Mar. 18, 2003 at 5:17 PM |
| MR |
2nd Ammendment |
Tuesday, Mar. 18, 2003 at 5:19 PM |
| Sigh |
Disbelief |
Tuesday, Mar. 18, 2003 at 5:32 PM |
| Ummm Hello |
Ash |
Tuesday, Mar. 18, 2003 at 6:14 PM |
| Don't See Marshall Law! |
Boxer IV |
Tuesday, Mar. 18, 2003 at 6:21 PM |
| Look at the date |
MadMaxim |
Tuesday, Mar. 18, 2003 at 6:23 PM |
| Ms. |
hax0r_m0m |
Tuesday, Mar. 18, 2003 at 6:27 PM |
| It's Not The "Left" I'm Worried About"--Nationalist's Ban Books |
2nd Adm |
Tuesday, Mar. 18, 2003 at 6:29 PM |
| References please? |
MadMaxim |
Tuesday, Mar. 18, 2003 at 6:37 PM |
| To Kire |
Box Cutter |
Tuesday, Mar. 18, 2003 at 6:43 PM |
| Yeah war certainly isn't going to do anything curtail terrorism |
Pissed Off in Ohio |
Tuesday, Mar. 18, 2003 at 6:45 PM |
| HA! |
2nd a |
Tuesday, Mar. 18, 2003 at 6:45 PM |
| Clandestine Radio |
Max Thrasher |
Tuesday, Mar. 18, 2003 at 7:08 PM |
| Leme guess |
MadMaxim |
Tuesday, Mar. 18, 2003 at 7:24 PM |
| FYI: Constitution amended |
LIB |
Tuesday, Mar. 18, 2003 at 7:40 PM |
| Graphic aid please. |
MadMaxim |
Tuesday, Mar. 18, 2003 at 8:35 PM |
| Here's Your Link... |
Diogenes |
Tuesday, Mar. 18, 2003 at 8:54 PM |
| Lots of Descriptions |
MadMaxim |
Tuesday, Mar. 18, 2003 at 9:11 PM |
| wow |
POIO |
Tuesday, Mar. 18, 2003 at 9:16 PM |
| Oh Well,... |
Diogenes |
Tuesday, Mar. 18, 2003 at 9:16 PM |
| Conspiracy? |
MadMaxim |
Tuesday, Mar. 18, 2003 at 9:46 PM |
| Oh Yeah... |
Cloak And Dagger |
Tuesday, Mar. 18, 2003 at 9:59 PM |
| Engaged (Past Tense..?) |
MadMaxim |
Tuesday, Mar. 18, 2003 at 10:06 PM |
| National Review?! |
Sheepdog |
Tuesday, Mar. 18, 2003 at 10:09 PM |
| And who pays? |
MadMaxim |
Tuesday, Mar. 18, 2003 at 10:12 PM |
| Eta ne ochen harasho |
Gaspadeen Sheepdog |
Tuesday, Mar. 18, 2003 at 10:20 PM |
| MadMixmaster |
Diogenes |
Tuesday, Mar. 18, 2003 at 10:20 PM |
| Cute, but you failed to answer the question |
MadMaxim |
Tuesday, Mar. 18, 2003 at 10:25 PM |
| yeah wtf anyways |
POIO |
Tuesday, Mar. 18, 2003 at 10:29 PM |
| You know... |
Diogenes |
Tuesday, Mar. 18, 2003 at 10:30 PM |
| You don't need to be a Stalinist |
MadMaxim |
Tuesday, Mar. 18, 2003 at 10:34 PM |
| You... |
Diogenes |
Tuesday, Mar. 18, 2003 at 10:42 PM |
| Nemero dabushka |
Sheepdog |
Tuesday, Mar. 18, 2003 at 10:44 PM |
| Information Warfare |
MadMaxim |
Tuesday, Mar. 18, 2003 at 10:46 PM |
| The Price of Liberty... |
Diogenes |
Tuesday, Mar. 18, 2003 at 10:52 PM |
| Das vedanya tavasish, ne! |
Sheepdog |
Tuesday, Mar. 18, 2003 at 10:54 PM |
| "Let them watch" Uhuh |
MadMaxim |
Tuesday, Mar. 18, 2003 at 10:58 PM |
| Freedom... |
Diogenes |
Tuesday, Mar. 18, 2003 at 11:03 PM |
| And I suppose I am too.. |
MadMaxim |
Tuesday, Mar. 18, 2003 at 11:05 PM |
| yeah get the other 28% involved too eh? |
POIO |
Tuesday, Mar. 18, 2003 at 11:19 PM |
| Why? You prove it time and again |
Liberal with a Gun |
Tuesday, Mar. 18, 2003 at 11:27 PM |
| Not absentee ballots |
MadMaxim |
Tuesday, Mar. 18, 2003 at 11:37 PM |
| Yes a paper trail |
sheepdog |
Wednesday, Mar. 19, 2003 at 6:41 PM |
| How about an ETrail? |
MadMaxim |
Wednesday, Mar. 19, 2003 at 7:20 PM |
| Frankly... |
Diogenes |
Wednesday, Mar. 19, 2003 at 7:41 PM |
| mr. |
jim smith |
Wednesday, Mar. 19, 2003 at 10:25 PM |
| wow |
wow |
Wednesday, Mar. 19, 2003 at 10:35 PM |
| Dr. Smith was a woosy. |
MadMaxim |
Wednesday, Mar. 19, 2003 at 11:15 PM |
| Thread hidden? |
MadMaxim |
Thursday, Mar. 20, 2003 at 2:58 PM |
| Now you are getting paranoid. |
Diogenes |
Thursday, Mar. 20, 2003 at 3:04 PM |
| Ok then... where is |
MadMaxim |
Thursday, Mar. 20, 2003 at 3:13 PM |
| I give. |
Diogenes |
Thursday, Mar. 20, 2003 at 3:24 PM |
| I'm new at this... |
MadMaxim |
Thursday, Mar. 20, 2003 at 3:35 PM |
| You have to... |
Diogenes |
Thursday, Mar. 20, 2003 at 11:15 PM |
| Hey Cool |
MadMaxim |
Thursday, Mar. 20, 2003 at 11:55 PM |
| Hmmm, Anybody Recognize this Quote? |
MadMaxim |
Friday, Mar. 21, 2003 at 12:16 AM |
| This is why... |
Khiken |
Friday, Mar. 21, 2003 at 3:07 PM |
| Running from it... |
Diogenes |
Friday, Mar. 21, 2003 at 3:11 PM |
| Mr. |
The Milkman |
Thursday, Feb. 05, 2004 at 10:22 AM |
| The |
Milkman |
Thursday, Feb. 05, 2004 at 10:25 AM |
| The |
Milkman |
Thursday, Feb. 05, 2004 at 10:27 AM |
| Sorry About the double-clicking |
The Milkman |
Thursday, Feb. 05, 2004 at 10:28 AM |
| testing the waters |
Sheepdog |
Thursday, Feb. 05, 2004 at 3:37 PM |
| Martial law? |
C. Kem |
Friday, Feb. 06, 2004 at 12:21 AM |
| Martial Law |
Captain America |
Sunday, Mar. 28, 2004 at 11:28 PM |
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