IP: US legislators warn of Y2K martial law

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

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>From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
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>http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/20751.html
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>                      Y2K Conspiracy Goes Mainstream
>                      by Declan McCullagh (declan@wired.com)
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>                      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. 
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>                      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." ...
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>                      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. 
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>                      [...remainder snipped...]