Red alert? Stay home, await word

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.

"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."

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Just take a second and think what it would be like if the "red alert" came into shape, just stepping outside will result in you be assumered as an terrorist.
Your whole life will change from there on, you cannot do anything unless they say so. This is the perfect environment for Big brother and a perfect police state.

How would you live and go about your life under a "red alert" period??? would you try and sneek outside or would you stay inside??? also how would you react being in a police state??

[Edited on 1-11-2003 by infinite]

6 or 7 people dressed in cammos walk about... try get some sort of insignia... pretend your on duty following something up and gaurding the streets...

good idea, but if you get found out...you'll get a bullet in your head

*Steps into the backyard*

I'd probably get one of them Orange guns and shoot a few oranges into the sky far far away or a few lemons ;P

i'll even pull out my glove gun witha few ball bearings and shoot them over the to the road behind the house behind me ;P

Bwahahah


I'd just head outside and say im going to the grocery store.

[Edited on 1-11-2003 by DaRAGE]

I'd just head outside and say im going to the grocery store.

lol i doubt they will let you out they might do the shopping for you, if you ask nicely

I would probably try my luck and just go about my daily life. After all, isin't it my life to do with as I see fit? Even if it runs me the very very remote risk of being killed by a terrorist?. Also, I honestly dont think a red level would be kept for more than maybe a day at the most, because that means all commerce is halted, the economy is at a crawl, and were that to be sustained for a few days or more, it would have definate impacts on the over-all economy. Basically Its a big scary thing to dangle over our heads for the government, but really stupid to implemment considering how the economny is going.

but what are we supposed to do if we're in school?

Originally posted by infinite
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.

"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."

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Just take a second and think what it would be like if the "red alert" came into shape, just stepping outside will result in you be assumered as an terrorist.
Your whole life will change from there on, you cannot do anything unless they say so. This is the perfect environment for Big brother and a perfect police state.

How would you live and go about your life under a "red alert" period??? would you try and sneek outside or would you stay inside??? also how would you react being in a police state??

[Edited on 1-11-2003 by infinite]

Would a radio network be deemed as non essential? especially a christian one? Hooo hooo. I can't wait!