What are you going to do when they raise the Crayola Alert to RED?
I'm serious. What are your plans? Have you a clue?
Well, thanks to Steve at Illruminations, who found this pearl over at Metafilter, here's the deal: you stay home and wait.
That's right,you stay inside your house, lock the door, turn on the news, and probably go searching for that duct tape and plastic sheeting you bought earlier this year. But the one thing you're not going to do is Go Outside. Not if you know what's good for you.
Want to know more? Check out Tom Baldwin's Red Alert? Stay Home, Await Word, an article that ran in last Sunday's Courier Post Online. Here's a snip from Baldwin's piece...
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.
Be certain to pick up the rest of Baldwin's piece by clicking here. Reality is enough to knock your socks off.
Martial law looks about set to make an appearance in the Land of the Free and the Home of the Petrified. Nice of them to bring us up to speed, eh?
