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."
HARTFORD, Conn. -- Civil rights advocates are concerned about the implications of a "code red" security designation, which could force ordinary citizens into lockdown.
The Journal-Inquirer of Manchester reported that state police have said that the highest security threat designation could lead to orders for citizens to stay indoors, or face arrest.
"Civil liberties cannot be suspended just because we're in time of war," said Teresa Younger, executive director of the Connecticut Civil Liberties Union. "We need to remain vigilant for our rights and have to assume that people will do what's best for themselves."
The highest level on the nation's alert system means a terrorist attack is imminent. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security elevated the national alert status to "code orange" Tuesday.
The war with Iraq has increased the risk of a terrorist attack on America, said former Sen. Gary Hart, who now is co-chairman of the Commission on National Security for the 21st Century.
“Don’t be surprised if in the coming hours or days we go to Code Red,” Hart said this morning in Washington. “It is almost inevitable.” ... The commission predicted in 1999 that America would suffer a major terrorist attack, and Hart was predicting such an attack as late as early September 2001.
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War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
The war with Iraq has increased the risk of a terrorist attack on America, said former Sen. Gary Hart, who now is co-chairman of the Commission on National Security for the 21st Century.
“Don’t be surprised if in the coming hours or days we go to Code Red,” Hart said this morning in Washington. “It is almost inevitable.” ... The commission predicted in 1999 that America would suffer a major terrorist attack, and Hart was predicting such an attack as late as early September 2001.
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Если объявят чрезвычайное положение в стране, привет будет работать по прежнему или тоже прикроют?
KNOWLEDGE IS POWER! ЗНАНИЕ - СИЛА!
Disclaimer: These views might be different from any other views in my Universe.
У нас в универе официально обьявили вчера что всем кто находится временно в командировках/study abroad в странах из warning list at state.gov/travel немедленно приказывается вернуться.
Nata Ivanova wrote:У нас в универе официально обьявили вчера что всем кто находится временно в командировках/study abroad в странах из warning list at state.gov/travel немедленно приказывается вернуться.
Самое грустное заключается в том, что америкосы действительно верят всему етому. Давно не рождает страна людей типа Клина Иствуда, Джона Вейна и др. Измельчал народ.
By Dan Eggen and Robert O'Harrow Jr. Washington Post Staff Writers Monday, March 24, 2003; Page A01
Since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the Justice Department and FBI have dramatically increased the use of two little-known powers that allow authorities to tap telephones, seize bank and telephone records and obtain other information in counterterrorism investigations with no immediate court oversight, according to officials and newly disclosed documents.
The FBI, for example, has issued scores of "national security letters" that require businesses to turn over electronic records about finances, telephone calls, e-mail and other personal information, according to officials and documents. The letters, a type of administrative subpoena, may be issued independently by FBI field offices and are not subject to judicial review unless a case comes to court, officials said.
Attorney General John D. Ashcroft has also personally signed more than 170 "emergency foreign intelligence warrants," three times the number authorized in the preceding 23 years, according to recent congressional testimony.
... Ashcroft told lawmakers earlier this month that Justice made more than 1,000 applications for warrants to the secret court in 2002, including more than 170 in the emergency category. In the previous 23 years, only 47 emergency FISA warrants were issued.
KNOWLEDGE IS POWER! ЗНАНИЕ - СИЛА!
Disclaimer: These views might be different from any other views in my Universe.
не совсем понимаю какая взаимосвязь комендантского часа внутри Америки(которого, кстати, нету) и travel advisories ГосДепа? Они (travel advisories) были практически всегда , в те или иные страны.
US President George W Bush signed an executive order on Tuesday that delays the release of millions of historical documents for more than three years, citing the need for extra time to complete a backlog of declassification reviews.
His action also makes it easier to reclassify information that could damage US national security interests.
Washington Post wrote:Terrorist tip lines have sprouted in many parts of the nation; Virginia began posting its own line Tuesday. Maryland's signs have evoked a mixed response. ...Others, however, report behavior later deemed suspicious enough by investigators to be catalogued and probed.
Still others have responded with anger and unease, seeing the campaign as a threat to civil liberties and a state-sponsored effort to get residents to spy on one another. "It's an overreaction that plays on our worst instincts," said state Sen. Sharon M. Grosfeld (D-Montgomery), who fought unsuccessfully last year to block legislation to broaden police powers in the name of fighting terrorism. "The state is saying, 'It's okay to feed your paranoia, your xenophobia, your hysteria.' "
There over 600 prison camps in the United States, all fully operational and ready to receive prisoners. They are all staffed and even surrounded by full-time guards, but they are all empty. These camps are to be operated by FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) should Martial Law need to be implemented in the United States.
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Protesters in Minnesota could find it expensive to champion their cause if the governor there has his way. Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty is considering a proposal that would require demonstrators who get arrested to foot a portion of the bill for the time it takes police to place them in custody. The idea -- not yet submitted to the state legislature -- comes in the wake of arrests of about 90 antiwar demonstrators in the Minneapolis area last week.
A spokeswoman for the governor said it's a matter of scarce resources and that anti-war protesters are not being targeted...Critics are not so sure. One said the governor's support of the U.S.-led war in Iraq is the impetus for the idea.
NY Times wrote:WASHINGTON, April 8 — Working with the Bush administration, Congressional Republicans are maneuvering to make permanent the sweeping antiterrorism powers granted to federal law enforcement agents after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, officials said today. The move is likely to touch off strong objections from many Democrats and even some Republicans in Congress who believe that the Patriot Act, as the legislation that grew out of the attacks is known, has already given the government too much power to spy on Americans.
The landmark legislation expanded the government's power to use eavesdropping, surveillance, access to financial and computer records and other tools to track terrorist suspects.
When it passed in October 2001, moderates and civil libertarians in Congress agreed to support it only by making many critical provisions temporary. Those provisions will expire, or "sunset," at the end of 2005 unless Congress re-authorizes them.
But Republicans in the Senate in recent days have discussed a proposal, written by Senator Orrin G. Hatch, Republican of Utah, that would repeal the sunset provisions and make the law's new powers permanent, officials said. Republicans may seek to move on the proposal this week by trying to attaching it to another antiterrorism bill that would make it easier for the government to use secret surveillance warrants against "lone wolf" terrorism suspects.
Broad Domestic Role Asked for C.I.A. and the Pentagon
WASHINGTON, May 1 — The Bush administration and leading Senate Republicans sought today to give the Central Intelligence Agency and the Pentagon far-reaching new powers to demand personal and financial records on people in the United States as part of foreign intelligence and terrorism operations, officials said.
The proposal, which was beaten back, would have given the C.I.A. and the military the authority to issue administrative subpoenas — known as "national security letters" — requiring Internet providers, credit card companies, libraries and a range of other organizations to produce materials like phone records, bank transactions and e-mail logs. That authority now rests largely with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the subpoenas do not require court approval.
The surprise proposal was tucked into a broader intelligence authorization bill now pending before Congress. It set off fierce debate today in a closed-door meeting of the Senate Intelligence Committee, officials said. Democrats on the panel said they were stunned by the proposal because it appeared to expand significantly the role of the C.I.A. and the Pentagon in conducting domestic operations, despite a long history of tight restrictions, officials said.
After raising objections, Senator Dianne Feinstein of California and other Democrats succeeded in getting the provision pulled from the authorization bill, at least temporarily, Congressional officials said.
CBI, давно хотела спросить: вот вы начинаете дюжины топиков, давая ссылки 'обличительного' оттенка. Вы что то пытаетесь сказать? или просто паранойя мучает, и не хочется страдать в одиночестве, ищете сочувствия? не пойму в чем ваш point.
