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Hot off the press...
At 06:07 AM 11/1/99 -0500, you wrote:
> -Caveat Lector-
>
> My boss, who's been skeptical thus far about the potential dangers of
>"Y2K," just heard BAD NEWS from a friend of his, a person with a high-ranking
>position in the San Mateo (Ca.) Police Department [or Sheriff's Department, I
>don't remember which]..
> His friend warned him not to be in San Francisco, and especially not in
>downtown San Francisco where he works, on New Year's Eve 1999.
> Explaining, he told him that local law enforcement agencies were
>preparing for what they EXPECT to occur in most major cities due to the
>combination of (1) Y2K-related problems --possible power outages at night,
>communications systems down-- and (2) unusually massive crowds assembled on
>the streets late at night to celebrate New Year's Eve AND the beginning of a
>new millennium. They're anticipating this scenario:
>first, mass drunken anarchy, with the usual random violence and the
>overturning and torching of automobiles ... then, knife and GUN violence, as
>black, Latino, and Asian gangs (who, according to "police intelligence," are
>plotting to seize this opportunity) arrive on the scene armed, committing
>hit-and-run criminal acts (robbery, carjacking, rape, etc) on the hapless
>revellers, and then vanishing, "lost in the crowd," panicking ... everyone
>... the police join the fray, leading to shootouts on crowded streets between
>cops and gangs -- seeing which, mobs of outraged inner-city teens surge
>forward and attack the police ... and finally, this mob hysteria turns even
>uglier, in a totally brazen looting of downtown retail outlets, arson of
>"white" properties, and rioting, before long snowballing into a scene that
>would make the LA riots look like a Boy Scout party ...
>The police are so vastly outnumbered they have to retreat to save their own
>skin, the fire department is unable to respond to so many fires at once,
>there's a near-total blackout due to Y2K-related power failures and the
>NON-Y2K-related sabotage of utility stations, communications are down between
>city agencies, traffic is bottlenecked to a standstill because there are
>automobile collisions everywhere and the congestion caused by the vehicles of
>revellers, many erupting into "road rage," makes the areas of worst rioting,
>arson and looting inaccessible to the police and fire departments' emergency
>vehicles.
>City agencies call for the National Guard to restore order, but since the
>National Guard itself is already thinned out trying to deal with the SAME
>conditions in SEVERAL cities
>at the same time, no help is forthcoming ... The MILITARY has to be called in
>to help,
>Martial Law will be declared ... Meanwhile, however, the whole city is up in
>flames and gun battles are going on everywhere between citizens, criminals,
>and "political radicals" -- while all local government agencies just stand by
>and watch this with a "hands off" attitude, having decided that intervention
>to restore "law and order" is IMPOSSIBLE, since they're outnumbered, and
>under fire themselves, and no backup from the military can be expected for at
>least days. "Just let 'em kill each other and burn it all down."
>
> That was the picture which my boss' friend in law enforcement painted
>for us -- and he told him, seriously, to arm himself to the teeth
>immediately, and to be prepared to shoot scores of people who, singly or in
>groups, would try to burglarize or set fire to his home, willing to injure or
>kill him in the process. "Just pretend you're in Kosovo."
> And he added: if you're at work at the time, or summoned to work to help
>protect
>the workplace from arson or looting, don't BE there -- or at the very least,
>if you ARE there, don't put up a fight when you face the crazed, rapacious
>mob. Retreat -- think about saving your OWN life, because there's NO HOPE of
>defending yourself against the mob if you represent --or even seem to
>represent-- "security," law enforcement, or "authority." "The police will
>NOT assist you," said this local law enforcement official.
>It's "every man for himself" -- and that attitude will be a matter of
>OFFICIAL POLICY.
>
> We're already aware of the MILITARY's estimate is of the potential
>dangers of Y2K, we know from reading a recent AP item the FBI's view, and
>now, "off the record," you've just heard how LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT sees it
>...
>
> An "apocalypse" of MASS-HYSTERIA and VIOLENT MOB RULE is expected on Dec
>31, 1999, and federal, state, and local governments are PREPARING for that...
>
> And SOME preparations involve "washing their hands" and LETTING it
>happen!
>
> AFTER which, there goes Posse Comitatus, and here comes Martial Law, and
>the suspension of all Constitutional freedoms and rights for an indefinite
>duration ...
>
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