Tom Baldwin reporting for the Courier-Post on Red alert? Stay home, await word:
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.
Most disturbing is the assertion that "you will be assumed by authorities to be the enemy if you so much as venture outside your home." Okey-dokey. Someone got a new pair of jackboots for Christmas.
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Link courtesy of Declan McCullagh.