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Politics : The 2nd Amendment-- The Facts........ -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JeffA who wrote (636)	7/26/1999 6:06:00 PM
From: Frederic Conrad	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10167

What's your take on this report, JeffA? More Y2K paranoia, you think? I got this from a friend, who has never lied to me before. (So, for what it is worth, I cannot prove it.) He is a Graphic Artist who went to a New Jersey Printer Shop twice last week to get some work done for a client. The shop owner said they were too busy doing 'Government work'. He noticed pallets and pallets of different colored coupons that said GAS on them. Other areas in the shop where pallets were stacked had signs in front of them on the floor that said things like MEAT and PETROL. He went back there yesterday to see if he could steal some samples ... he couldn't, but he had a long conversation with the sales rep. They went out to a bar, and he proceeded to drink all afternoon with this guy, who then spilled his guts. This is what was said: The Government supplied the paper and ink, and everything was weighed when it came in and when it left. Security cages had been installed by the feds, and all hard drives were taken, and all film and press plates were taken, too, and the whole process had been monitored by a Marine Captain and two armed guards. The Marine Captain is a Y2K Nut and said these things to the sales rep: The Government expects things to break apart around September 9th, 1999. The computers see this as 9/9/99, or 9999, which is the end code for the software. The Marines are ready to declare Martial Law on September 29th. They are "counting on" the computers to go down on either Sept. 9th, 19th, or the 29th. It all has to do with "9's". They are hoping it happens on 9/9, so that by 9/29, everything will be in chaos, and the public will be calling on the Government to do something. As for the gas coupons ... most gas stations will be closed when Martial Law is declared. The coupons are in $5 and $10 amounts, and would go on like the odd-even times with license plates like it did back in the 70's gas shortage. Diesel is, at this time in the plan, exempt. The Government's biggest fear, according to the Marine Captain, is how this will affect the economy during the holiday season. Under Martial Law, with curfews and gas rationing, the public won't be able to shop late, and many retailers live or die by the holiday season sales. [Damn, if enough of us can't get to K-Mart, maybe Ragnarok will start sooner than we expected. - T.H.] This is supposedly why Vice President Gore was pushing Internet Shopping this week, so people will be able to shop at home. The sales rep told my friend that they were only one of many printers being used, and the Government needs millions of these coupon books. Others have to be involved in this, too. Know any printers you could ask about this?