Code Red: Leave the house, and you're a terrorist

[quinnox]

Ever wonder what it would mean if the alert level was raised to red, the highest level? This March 2003 story gives a disturbing hint:

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.

http://www.propagandamatrix.com/red_alert_stay_home_await_word

[LARED]

1. These people are

to stupid for words.

[Lizz612]

2. Watch they call one on election day.

No, sorry that’s really cynical, I shouldn't be that cynical this early. Sorry.

[kclown]

9. Remember what Lily Tomlin says:

"No matter how cynical you get, it's impossible to keep
up."

[JVS]

3. What if you are homeless?

[NNN0LHI]

4. I think it means the homeless would be considered terra-ists? n/t

[htuttle]

5. Yup

Have you ever seen the movie 'Soylent Green' ?



Like that...

(on edit: bad speling = even -> ever)

[TolstoyAndy]

6. Other URLs

Not just NJ - I saved this story from PA and CT as well.

Original links not guaranteed to still work, second link to each story is to my saved copy.

NJ (above):
http://www.southjerseynews.com/issues/march/m031603e.htm
copy

PA:
Code Red would trigger a virtual lockdown
http://www.post-gazette.com/nation/20030330codered0330p6.asp
copy


CT:
Civil rights advocates worried about 'code red'
http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/local/state/hc-22201122.apds.m0901.bc-ct--codemar22,0,6088987.story?coll=hc-headlines-local-wire
copy


More:
'Red Means Big Brother's in Charge'
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0317/lee.php
copy

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Propaganda Matrix is a great site - also worth a visit are InfoWars.com and PrisonPlanet.com

[redeye]

7. Heil Bush! Ein Reich, ein Volk, ein Fuehrer!

Those guys better not declare a red alert during my exam week :( :).

Anyway, this is yet another piece of evidence that conservatives and other rightists don't give a flying fuck about civil liberties and will sacrifice them for national security and other nationalistic bullshit. Mussolini, here we come!

[Eloriel]

8. Ummm,aren't you the one who's supporting the CA recall?

Mussolini here we come for sure!

Eloriel

[redeye]

10. Isn't there a DU rule against stalking?

Moreovr, it doesn't matter. You can support the recall (note: I'm willing to reconsider if Cruz becomes more clearly pro-death penalrty for 14 year olds, or if more seletons are found in Cruz's closet) and still hate Bush and the Fascist Act.