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

To: J.L. Turner who wrote (6575)	7/15/1999 4:07:00 PM
From: Ken	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

<<Martial LaW: Military Assistance to Civil Authorities>> Just when you thought it would be safe to play in the streets next year! <<http://www.doncio.navy.mil/y2k/DoDD3025-15p.txt Nixon closed the gold window and floated the dollar's value on August 15, 1971. Four days later, a new military policy began, Department of Defense Directive (DODD) 3025.12, "Employment of Military Resources in the Event of Civil Disturbances." It was expanded under Reagan in 1988. It has been expanded repeatedly under Clinton. Here is a February 18, 1997 update. The posting is from the Navy. The Air Force posted an earlier version in 1994. What is significant about the Navy's posting is the Web site: DONCIO. This stands for Department of the Navy, Chief Information Officer. The CIO is the office of the head computer geek. He is in charge of y2k. The document appears in the y2k segment of the site. Pay close attention to this: 4.7.1. Immediate Response. Requests for an immediate response (i.e., any form of immediate action taken by a DoD Component or military commander to save lives, prevent human suffering, or mitigate great property damage under imminently serious conditions) may be made to any Component or Command. The DoD Components that receive verbal requests from civil authorities for support in an exigent emergency may initiate informal planning and, if required, immediately respond as authorized in DoD Directive 3025.1 (reference (g)). Civil authorities shall be informed that verbal requests for support in an emergency must be followed by a written request. When was the last time you saw this much authority transferred to a local commander who was not involved in battlefield command decisions? I suggest that you click through to the original document and save it to your disk. Revealing documents have an unfortunate tendency to disappear. It is not just that the document exists; where it is posted is of equal importance.