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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: bearcub who wrote (6570)	7/15/1999 10:18:00 AM
From: J.L. Turner	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

y2k conspiracy goes mainstream Posted on csy2k today Author: declan <declan@[nospam]y2kculture.com> Posting History wired.com Y2K Conspiracy Goes Mainstream by Declan McCullagh (declan@wired.com) 3:00 a.m. 15.Jul.99.PDT WASHINGTON -- For many Y2K fanatics, the scariest threat on 1 January 2000 is not technology at all. It's the far more sinister specter of a power-mad president imposing martial law. Dark visions of US Marines stomping through backyards on New Year's Eve 1999 are a staple of innumerable Y2K discussion groups. A typical post: "There is nothing secret about the fact [that the] US, UK and Canada are preparing for martial law." ... They got a boost Wednesday from a conference hosted by the staid US Reserve Officers Association, an eminently respectable organization that Congress chartered in 1920. [...remainder snipped...]