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.
Can’t you see how quickly evil men and women are taking over our world? How can we not fight this. Imprisoning people in their homes by changing one status color?
Sure, I acknowledge people need to be protected, but should a government have this much power? Can anyone be assumed to be a terrorist just on their word? I think not.
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.
“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.”
Green Peace offers this:
International Law and the War on Iraq
The US and UK governments have claimed the right to invade Iraq even without a second UN resolution. They claim Iraq is a threat to world peace and security and that they are entitled to take preventive unilateral military action. Contrary to these claims, international legal experts from around the world are arguing that without a further Security Council Resolution specifically authorizing the use of force such an attack would be illegal.
Peace, Truth and Freedom are under seige across this world and it’s time to rise up against tyranny!
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I’d rather be imprisoned in my home by changing one status colour than by imprisoned in jail just because Saddam Hussein or one of his sons doesn’t like you.
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By the way, how is the U.S. action “unilateral” when they have the direct support of some 30 nations? And that’s not even counting those 15 or so that are with them but won’t say so publicly. As I understand it, the coalition for this action is the third largest coalition in history, behind only the Gulf War and WWII.
And FWIW, Clinton did not even seek UN approval for the US actions in Bosnia. I don’t remember anything close to an uproar over that.