Larry Sanger has written an editorial called About Interpreting Jim Lord's Report. He raises the question: "It may be the official view of the Navy (or rather, of some privileged, perhaps secret body within the Navy) that certain American cities will probably or likely be without water, electricity, gas, or sewer systems in 2000. If we were to learn that this is indeed the Navy's official view, it would easily be the most dramatic and newsworthy piece of information about Y2K preparedness that we have yet seen. And just this is what Jim Lord (on www.jimlord.to) alleges to be fact. Is it?"

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-- pshannon (pshannon@sangersreview.com), August 24, 1999

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-- pshannon (pshannon@sangersreview.com), August 24, 1999.

Patrick, I got an e-mail from a friend in PA this morning. This is what he said, "Last Thursday, Navy technicians and programmers from all over the nation were flown into D.C. for a special meeting. They assumed it was to discuss Y2K contingency planning in light of their Y2K assessment of their base vulnerabilities. Instead of a full day of planned sessions, all they got was a 15 minute meeting in which they were told there will be NO Y2K problems and that the Navy assessment chart was based on faulty assumptions. No questions were allowed and everyone was sent home."

I can't prove it's true of course, but I did find it interesting. Maybe someone else can confirm this?

-- Gayla (privacy@please.com), August 24, 1999.

Sanger proves he is not a doomer, he has an open mind and can think for himself. Good show!.

I wish more so called "GI" would start thinking for themselves and realize that not only is the government and corporations lying to them, their fellow Y2k-ers might also be fudging the facts in favor of a doom and gloom scenario.

-- Fat Tony (FatTony@youmammashouse.com), August 24, 1999.

It's a good editorial but it isn't breaking new ground or information here. Anyone who had clarity of mind would have seen exactly what Sanger has pointed out in this editorial AS the events were unfolding.

The biggest issue is still, as yet, unresolved. Perhaps it is the issue that Lord himself was trying to push via the FOIA and the "protest"

The government needs to "come clean." The very fact that there are not only unanswered questions but even questions answered with questionable logic and information only clouds public perception. It smells badly of PR and spinmeistering and the government itself has stated that the perception issue is something they are very interested in keeping under their "control".

I had serious worries over the "report" and the nature in which it was presented. The experience only heightens to awareness of just how quickly information can flow via this "information superhighway." I even had fears that the "report" would create a panic. Maybe it has in ways we cannot even see, behind the closed doors in D.C. and elsewhere.

Bottom line, if you keep things secret then secrets have a way of comming back to bite you in the butt. When you keep secrets from millions of people your butt is going to get chewed up really bad.

Mike

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-- Michael Taylor (mtdesign3@aol.com), August 24, 1999.

Fat Tony said it best -

"I wish more so called "GI" would start thinking for themselves and realize that not only is the government and corporations lying to them, their fellow Y2k-ers might also be fudging the facts in favor of a doom and gloom scenario."

It's clear to me that way too many people refuse to even consider the possibility of this fudge-factor coming from those who are "pushing" the doom and gloom scenerios. Gary North, Michael Hyatt, Jim Lord, Y2kNewswire, etc. etc. etc. pitch their spin and these people take it as gospel. Yet at the same time, they are the first to scream "spin" at each and every "positive" report that comes out of the media.

I've often felt Larry Sanger was a bit slanted in his "neutral" reports but I have to give him credit on this editorial. Finally somebody the hardcore "doomers" respect comes out and asks them to question their gurus' approach/motives. Like Fat Tony said... Good show!

-- CD (not@here.com), August 24, 1999.