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TIMES SQUARE - 3/28/02: Some street vendors operating in Times Square have been
 seen selling flag-shaped lapel pins in the F.I.V.E THREAT colors. A set of pins
 (all five colors) is supposedly selling for $4.00. The pins come in a clear
 sealed bag (4" x 6") with a piece of paper (crudely photocopied) containing the
 website address to look up the daily threat color.

One shopper, fingering the baggie, was overheard saying to the vendor, "You
 should have a black pin in there too." Another standing nearby quipped,
 "Yea, red means the shit already happened and I want to go straight to black 
 like the Police do."


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http://www.southjerseynews.com/issues/march/m031603e.htm

Red alert? Stay home, await word

Sunday, March 16, 2003

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."