Y2K was a whole 'nuther ball of wax. Anyone who looked at the Naval War College's Y2K website knew that the gov't was taking it very seriously -- and the hardened bunkers they built and stocked with supplies in the event the worst-case scenarios played out is solid evidence of just how seriously they took it.
Now, that said, this tripe is such garbage that I cannot fathom why WND is running with it. The mind boggles. It's almost as if they're trying to stack the deck against themselves in their current pitched battle for Congressional press-pass recognition status. At the same time they're insisting that they're serious journalists, they publish this embarassing horse manure not even worthy of tabloid "journalism". WTF were they thinking???
Geoff likes to ham it up with conspiracy theories all the time. His customer base includes the militia nutcase mentality and libertarian ideologues. Hopefully the ad revenue for WND will have increased for them, lest their efforts at shoveling out this drivel be a complete waste.