More on Navy document and Martial law (plan on/about Dec 1 for its initial declaration)
<< Steve Davis, who used to be a y2k official with Montgomery County, Maryland (still noncompliant, but among the most compliant of noncompliant counties), has this to say about Jim Lord's posting. My comments are in brackets.
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Here is some information for any of you that have heard the hype about the Navy Assessment that is posted at jimlord.to. this is paraphrased from an e-mail from John Koskinen that I got in response to my query on the veracity of this "information".
[Clever! Put quotation marks around "information." I say: don't give us a paraphrase of Koskinen's response when lives are on the line. Give me the original if you've got it. Put it on-line, just as the original document supposedly was two weeks ago when the Data Monster ate it. Get everything public, fast.]
The Navy report referenced by Mr. Lord is indeed real. It was on a web site publicly available until a few weeks ago (not just to people passing along "secret government documents").
[Ah, yes, the phantom, unnamed website.]
The report reflected an earlier attempt by the armed services to begin to collect assessment information about infrastructures in the areas in which we have bases. Like everyone else, the services were having a lot of trouble earlier this year getting people to tell them anything about readiness.
[Just as the public is having with the military. That's because a massive cover-up is going on at all levels. The systems are not compliant.]
The ratings were based on anecdotal information that was updated over time and do not reflect "the official government assessment of any kind.
[The "official government assessment" is for the public to plan for a 72-hour disruption, and all data -- all data -- are officially interpreted in terms of this. All reports to the contrary are unofficial. It's a matter of political definition.]
Most significantly, which Jim does not note and may not have known (although he made no inquiries that John knows of) the instructions were to put a "3" (risk of failure) as the default if information was not available. Earlier this year when base commanders and others were trying to determine the status of local infrastructures here and around the world there wasn't much information available, which is why there were so many "3"s.
[Where is the proof for this statement? Where is the document? Why are we being handed out a paraphrase? Why was the document removed from the phantom website? And why did it take a public posting of a summary to get John Koskinen to comment on this document?]
The lack of local information was one of the reasons the White House launched the "Community Conversations" initiative in May and why DoD has a related initiative they have asked all their base commanders to lead in their local communities, either by supporting the communities conversation or helping to organize one in the absence of any other facilitators.
[The reason why the White House launched the "Community Conversations" is to transfer responsibility for the coming martial law declaration to local communities, so that the Federal Government, in all its 99% compliant glory, will not get blamed for its inaction, its dawdling, and its unwillingness to tell the voters what is at stake here. The motive is clear: to get y2k off of Bill Clinton's back, politically speaking. The Republicans in Washington will applaud this, for they have been equally tight-lipped on y2k. So, Koskinen goes on the sawdust trail to tell the nation that the problem is mostly local, especially municipal. The Navy looks into this and finds, lo and behold, just how true this is. The sewer systems are noncompliant in 100 cities. They will be in deep doo-doo in January. And what does John the Baptist, voice crying in the wilderness, say? Why, it's all anecdotal! No big problem. Koskinen dances his partner across the floor. Then he dances her back again.]
Third, the people the leadership at DoD and the services care most about are their troops and the advice sent to them by the Secretary of the Navy -- which is anything but alarmist -- reflects the low level of risks from Y2K as seen by the department leadership. (But they did recommend personal preparedness and continue to do so.)
["We're gonna spin, spin, spin till my daddy takes the T-bills away!" When James Carville rides off into the sunset, John Koskinen Davis will be there.]
John and I both agree that, as we move through the fall, we will have more than enough interesting and important matters to pursue.
[Little does this guy know. None of us can know. We have never seen a systemic, worldwide breakdown before.]
In other words, we won't need to be making mountains out of molehills to keep things interesting.
[Martial law is surely interesting. So is the shutdown of water and sewer systems.]
The moral of this story is to always hold back on assuming these types of reports are 100% accurate until someone takes the time to look for the truth in these stories.
[The moral of the story is to blow the whistle as loud as you can, so that John Koskinen is forced to dance his verbal tango and thereby reveal to anyone with eyes to see that a cover-up is in full force, and you has better take personal action to avoid the looming disaster.]
Best wishes, Steve
(Please feel free to send this to anyone who may have gotten the earlier messages)
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