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Originally Posted by martinguerre
while i'm not exactly a fan of martial law, plagues, republicans, or chickens:
i think it's important to recall that the military is not a completly blind institution. while significantly more conservative on average than a randdom sampling of americans, they are not completely divorced from civilian concerns. Many of them were at one time, have family that currently are, or plan on being in the future just that, civilians.
While i think it's important to discuss the militarization of police efforts, and some of the problems that can create...i think one outcome we can safely take off the table is that a president could simply order the hostile take over of the nation with a completly complient military to do his or her bidding.
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It's not as difficult as you believe, history has shown us it is quite easy.... Hitler, Stalin, Chairman Mao, Idi Amin, Castro and so on and so on and so on.
Just tell the military in this case that area is contaminated do not let anyone out alive.
As for this example of Detroit getting it so we quarantine the city...... so by the time we have confirmed cases don't you think contaminated people will have already left and gone to other parts of the country and infected others, who have moved on and infected others and so on and so forth?
Or is the plan to put Martial Law down BEFORE any outbreak occurs?????
Amazes me how many people are willing to give up their rights and those of everyone else's for the false and foolish promises of safety and well being in cases like these.