[CTRL] Brits Told To Stockpile Food, US Govt Mistrusts and Hides Y2K Preparatioin
-Caveat Lector- I have been researching this issue for over a year. It is apparent that the US Govt has taken the position that The People cannot be trusted. The govt has a martial law plan in place, unfortunately the real remediation plan is F.O.F. (fix on failure), control the population through martial law, and discourage the population from planning ahead. It is the old P.A.N.G. (People Are No Good) syndrome at work. This is further proof that we are governed by Elitists, Manipulators, and Self Serving Politico - Sociopaths. flw BRITISH GOVERNMENT WARNS CITIZENS TO STOCKPILE FOOD Some Y2K leadership finally appears from a bureaucrat: Gwyneth Flower, the head of the British government's millennium bug Taskforce 2000, has now advised people to plan ahead. She's quoted in the story as saying, "We are talking about people having a judicious amount of surplus food in their kitchen cupboards." FLOWER CALLS PLANS 'SENSIBLE' "Anyone sensible would plan for this. Because we don't want to see panic buying in the weeks leading up to next Christmas, consumers should think about this in advance," Flower said. Detroit News link at: http://detnews.com/1998/technology/9812/14/12140186.htm Remember that in the United States, government officials are calling preparedness, "disruptive" and one person from the GartnerGroup calls preparations, "unnatural." There has been absolutely no government-sponsored call for the public to prepare here in the United States. And actions that are considered, "sensible" in the U.K. are considered "unnatural" in the United States. What's going on here? WE'VE ELECTED A BUNCH OF COWARDS An utter lack of leadership, that's what's going on here. Our government leaders are scared silly about acknowledging the Y2K problem is real. So instead of demonstrating real leadership, they'll wait until the problem gets *really* bad, when almost nobody has a realistic chance of actually being able to get prepared. Then they'll claim they had no way of knowing it was this bad. It's classic bureaucratic behavior: keep the information from the American people, then blame "radicals" for the panic. With the U.K. now calling on its citizens to hoard food, and with the Canadian government now pondering Martial Law (see story below), the United States government has done virtually nothing. Clinton is all but silent on the issue, and Congress is too busy Impeaching Clinton to look at Y2K. At the same time, John Koskinen, Clinton's Y2K czar, offers no reasonable preparation advice for American citizens, working instead to "alleviate fear" rather than tell people the truth about what they should be doing right now. THE GREATEST GOVERNMENTAL BLUNDER IN HISTORY Y2K is shaping up to be exactly that: the worst mistake the American government has ever made. While they squabble over impeachment and political power, the infrastructure of government threatens to collapse all around them. Only Senator Bennett has spoken loudly about what's going on here, and even he has recently tamed-down his rhetoric, likely out of concern of "scaring" people. Everybody is afraid of scaring people. But they're not afraid of leaving people in the dark. Why is that? PAPER SAYS, 'START HOARDING NOW' This Observer report says, "Britons have been warned to stock up with two weeks' emergency food rations in anticipation of millennium bug-related shortages." It goes on to mention that people should prepare for the worst-case scenario: "In an unprecedented statement indicating the level of panic in official circles, the Department of Trade and Industry-funded task force, charged with minimising potential damage caused by the bug, has said that contingency planning for a worst-case scenario should start as soon as possible." In this story, Flower is quoted as saying, "Because we don't want to see panic buying in the weeks leading up to next Christmas, consumers should think about this in advance." THIS IS PRECISELY THE POINT CLINTON DOESN'T UNDERSTAND Why can't U.S. officials get this? This quote from Flower hits the nail on the head: you have to warn people EARLY and encourage preparedness actions EARLY in order to avoid the panic. Clinton and Koskinen don't see it that way. They think that covering it up for as long as possible is the best strategy. Delay, delay, delay. They apparently hope the problem can be covered up indefinitely. WHY DID FLOWER ISSUE THE WARNING? According to the story, "...it has now emerged that large numbers of government, utilities and corporate computer systems that control every aspect of our lives will not be ready for the turn of the century." Again, that's one more Y2K fact that still is not being acknowledged here in the United States. The line from Koskinen: all government services will be just fine. There's no need to worry. Read the Observer story at: http://reports.guardian.co.uk/articles/1998/12/13/38148.html FLOWER GETS SILENCED! It seems that all government-employed Y2K-warners get
Re: [CTRL] Brits Told To Stockpile Food, US Govt Mistrusts and Hides Y2K Preparatioin
-Caveat Lector- Gwyneth Paltrow I might have listened to. Dan -Original Message- From: flw [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, December 16, 1998 4:37 PM Subject: [CTRL] Brits Told To Stockpile Food, US Govt Mistrusts and Hides Y2K Preparatioin -Caveat Lector- I have been researching this issue for over a year. It is apparent that the US Govt has taken the position that The People cannot be trusted. The govt has a martial law plan in place, unfortunately the real remediation plan is F.O.F. (fix on failure), control the population through martial law, and discourage the population from planning ahead. It is the old P.A.N.G. (People Are No Good) syndrome at work. This is further proof that we are governed by Elitists, Manipulators, and Self Serving Politico - Sociopaths. flw BRITISH GOVERNMENT WARNS CITIZENS TO STOCKPILE FOOD Some Y2K leadership finally appears from a bureaucrat: Gwyneth Flower, the head of the British government's millennium bug Taskforce 2000, has now advised people to plan ahead. She's quoted in the story as saying, "We are talking about people having a judicious amount of surplus food in their kitchen cupboards." FLOWER CALLS PLANS 'SENSIBLE' "Anyone sensible would plan for this. Because we don't want to see panic buying in the weeks leading up to next Christmas, consumers should think about this in advance," Flower said. Detroit News link at: http://detnews.com/1998/technology/9812/14/12140186.htm Remember that in the United States, government officials are calling preparedness, "disruptive" and one person from the GartnerGroup calls preparations, "unnatural." There has been absolutely no government-sponsored call for the public to prepare here in the United States. And actions that are considered, "sensible" in the U.K. are considered "unnatural" in the United States. What's going on here? WE'VE ELECTED A BUNCH OF COWARDS An utter lack of leadership, that's what's going on here. Our government leaders are scared silly about acknowledging the Y2K problem is real. So instead of demonstrating real leadership, they'll wait until the problem gets *really* bad, when almost nobody has a realistic chance of actually being able to get prepared. Then they'll claim they had no way of knowing it was this bad. It's classic bureaucratic behavior: keep the information from the American people, then blame "radicals" for the panic. With the U.K. now calling on its citizens to hoard food, and with the Canadian government now pondering Martial Law (see story below), the United States government has done virtually nothing. Clinton is all but silent on the issue, and Congress is too busy Impeaching Clinton to look at Y2K. At the same time, John Koskinen, Clinton's Y2K czar, offers no reasonable preparation advice for American citizens, working instead to "alleviate fear" rather than tell people the truth about what they should be doing right now. THE GREATEST GOVERNMENTAL BLUNDER IN HISTORY Y2K is shaping up to be exactly that: the worst mistake the American government has ever made. While they squabble over impeachment and political power, the infrastructure of government threatens to collapse all around them. Only Senator Bennett has spoken loudly about what's going on here, and even he has recently tamed-down his rhetoric, likely out of concern of "scaring" people. Everybody is afraid of scaring people. But they're not afraid of leaving people in the dark. Why is that? PAPER SAYS, 'START HOARDING NOW' This Observer report says, "Britons have been warned to stock up with two weeks' emergency food rations in anticipation of millennium bug-related shortages." It goes on to mention that people should prepare for the worst-case scenario: "In an unprecedented statement indicating the level of panic in official circles, the Department of Trade and Industry-funded task force, charged with minimising potential damage caused by the bug, has said that contingency planning for a worst-case scenario should start as soon as possible." In this story, Flower is quoted as saying, "Because we don't want to see panic buying in the weeks leading up to next Christmas, consumers should think about this in advance." THIS IS PRECISELY THE POINT CLINTON DOESN'T UNDERSTAND Why can't U.S. officials get this? This quote from Flower hits the nail on the head: you have to warn people EARLY and encourage preparedness actions EARLY in order to avoid the panic. Clinton and Koskinen don't see it that way. They think that covering it up for as long as possible is the best strategy. Delay, delay, delay. They apparently hope the problem can be covered up indefinitely. WHY DID FLOWER ISSUE THE WARNING? According to the story, "...it has now emerged that large numbers of government, utilities and corporate computer systems that control every
