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Back to the Bunker

Posted by ryuzaki0 on

Oldsmobile writes "On Monday, June 19, about 4,000 government workers representing more than 50 federal agencies will say goodbye to their families and set off for dozens of classified emergency facilities stretching from the Maryland and Virginia suburbs to the foothills of the Alleghenies. They will take to the bunkers in an "evacuation" that sources describe as the largest "continuity of government" exercise ever conducted, a drill intended to prepare the U.S. government for an event even more catastrophic than the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. The vast secret operation has updated the duck-and-cover scenarios of the 1950s with state-of-the-art technology -- alerts and updates delivered by pager and PDA, wireless priority service, video teleconferencing, remote backups -- to ensure that "essential" government functions continue undisrupted in an emergency."

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  1. And from the bunker by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The quote was "slashdot first post w00t!"

  2. FF? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first faggot?

  3. Meashh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Anybody else picture The Penguin descending in to the sewers flanked by thousands of radio controled penguins with Batman hot on his trail?

    For the record, even though Dick Chaney is a Penguin-esque mass murderer, I have a bit of grudging respect for the guy, and almost want to be like him. I mean, when he wants oil, people die.

    Shit, when I want oil I just go to the gas station. Nobody dies. Well, I guess some people died to help get the gas into my car, but I didn't personally order their deaths.

    I want to send Americans to their deaths and murder foreign nationals to steal their resources. I want to be Dick Chaney.

  4. Maybe this isn't such a bad thing by hacker · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    If the current administration continues down the path its going, with its self-destructive, Holier-than-thou (and-everyone-else) mentality, thinking that they are the World Police, they may actually NEED these bunkers, not to defend against a foreign attack, but to defend against a domestic uprising .

    Note to those who currently think they are in "power": WE the people, give you your rights and power, you do not give them to us. There are many more of us than you (and you are MADE of many of us). You might not want to get on our bad side, and you might want to consider re-reading your Constitution, Bill of Rights and Declaration of Independence.

    Scary but true, General Michael Hayden, former head of the NSA (yes, the one being accused of wiretapping millions of Americans without a warrant), doesn't even know the 4th Amendment, and insists he does. He's going for a position to head the CIA? Scary, scary stuff.

    Repeat to yourself: Erosion of civil liberties... is a threat to national security.

  5. But of course... by trellick · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    The RIAA must be able to continue to prosecute US citizens even after the dazed survivors of a cataclysmic attack emerge from the smoking ruins!