In a nutshell, New Jersey's Director of the Office of Counter-Terrorism notes that individuals will be forbidden from doing anything that is "non-essential" (his definition of course...). So businesses will be closed, people will be confined to their homes, and civil liberties will be suspended. All in the name of fighting what may be....

Personally, I'd rather make my own decisions about my safety than have it dictated to me by a Counter-Terrorism Czar who is working based on an abitrary and capricious color coded system of threats. Has anyone actually ever noticed any difference in their daily lives based on whether the government calls today yellow, orange, or green? I would be happy (well, maybe not happy -- but at least understanding) to accept that the government may wish to cut access to a certain bridge, or building, or a handful of locations, due to a specific threat, but to allude to the fact that our "Free" government will shut down everything deemed "non-essential" due to some potential threat no matter how great is absurd and flys in the face of all the freedoms we are said to be protecting. I would venture to say that I would much rather die by some nut case blowing me up unexpectedly as I headed to the office rather than live a caged existence confined to my home, deprived of my work and livelihood.... without what makes me whole and takes me through my day, life is relatively meaningless anyway....

So, a large Fuck You to Mr. Casperson (NJ Czar) and to any other government official who wishes to confine the populace because some Allah worshipping freak MIGHT blow us up....

JM