Doug
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>MEAT & PETROL
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>From: wotansfolk at usa.net (bob kelly)
>Date: Sat, May 22, 1999, 9:09 pm
>To: CNYWP at webtv.net
>Subject: *** URGENT ***
>Please forward to all.
>
>Kinfolk,
>
>I got this from a WP 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?