What Would You Do If Bush Declared Martial Law?
February 21st, 2007The mainstream limousine liberals are really whooping it up now. I read a couple of the comments to this story, and as I was being lulled to sleep by the clueless yammerings of the true believers in the Enemy Collaborator Democratic Party, I came across this one, which pretty much summed up the reality we’re facing:
The declaration of martial law will appear on page six, behind Britney Spear’s beaver shot. We know what matters!
I’m noticing that, increasingly, the most valuable commentary is totally absurd. (I almost don’t want to be seen as thinking that ANY aspect of this horror show is legitimate anymore. It’s embarrassing at this stage.) That’s tough for someone who’s expected to provide insightful analysis and commentary on events…
Via: Huffington Post:
And if they are planning a coup, what’s the goal? Who is going to fall in line? Arnold Schwarzenegger, my very own governor? Chet Culver? Kathleen Sebelius? Eliot Spitzer? Since the US is a corporatocracy, would we then all be forced to work for $2.00 per hour? Give up all workplace benefits? Attend the religious services of our choice on Sunday? Devote even more of our tax dollars to the war machine and the oil machine? Haven’t they taken everything already? Try as I might, I cannot imagine martial law in the US, except as something the population would agree to under threat from…from whom? Correct me if I am wrong (I know you will), but the last time martial law was declared was during the Civil War, and Americans, though the threats to the Union were profound and omnipresent, didn’t like it then. I can’t even imagine what would happen now.
Our armed forces can’t subdue Iraq. I can’t imagine that Bush thinks they could subdue New England or the West Coast, much less the whole US. To imagine himself commanding such a thing seems like magical thinking at its most obvious. So, what would you did if Bush declared martial law, laugh?
There’s a big difference between subduing, via martial law, a totally subversive and uncooperative nation like Iraq or Vietnam than a country of (mostly) sheeple like the USA or UK. In the latter, there will always be plenty of morons blindly loyal to, and trusting of, the government and it is they who will always forsake those who are trying to resist tyranny.
cryingfreedom- i agree with your post, which is why in my opinion, there’s really no need for Bush to declare martial law in this country. We are already under martial law! Why announce it?
Dboy
What do you think they need martial law for?
You already established that it does not matter which party is in power. People already work three jobs in parallel, and still barely make ends meet. Healthcare is a joke, there is no social safety net, the young and rebellious are sent to war in foreign countries to soften them up, and when they return Bush cut away the budget for the veterans. But hey, they’ll get a purple heart for the limb they lost.
The US already is a police state. When I fly to the US, they take all 10 fingerprints, and put it in a database. Probably the same database where the fingerprints from criminals are stored. A country that treats guests like that can’t be counted as civilized or developed.
You already live as slaves of the system. All of you. It does not matter whether you have the right to bear arms.
You are all living on a lifeline of cheap crap from China. You eat genetically manipulated plastic food from big food factories.
She makes some good points, like: “Correct me if I am wrong (I know you will), but the last time martial law was declared was during the Civil War, and Americans, though the threats to the Union were profound and omnipresent, didn’t like it then. I can’t even imagine what would happen now.”
Let’s face it, the fiercely independent American culture of the mid 19th century is a heck of a lot like the TV/Prozac/security addicted American society of today — NOT!
She’s a !#@$ing idiot. But golly, she won a pulitzer, she must be right.
God help us.
well put dboy. we are under de facto martial law already. the reason to screw up their party by putting armed servicemen on the street would be if there were an actual uprising. in the mean time we voluntarily accept their covert martial law.
While the suspension of habeas corpus is usually an indicator of martial law… I don’t think the U.S. is quite there yet. There’s no tanks on my corner and I havn’t seen any public executions for petty crimes or the breaking of curfew. So I’d say we’re not exactly under martial law now, but that’s probably because they don’t need it. I feel certain they’re ready for it but I am less certain that they can anger/rouse the population enough to make them rise up and thus give the need. I guess we’ll see how they play the game out… I find it unlikely that the current regime will give up power so I’m thinking when the time comes for them to do so we’ll see what card they play and then what reaction the people will have.
In any case, there are certain places, for example Los Angeles, where martial law just wouldn’t work… they’d probably have to firebomb the whole place, because the people there are already well armed and not afraid of violence.
The level of control exerted over the social-productive system by the elite makes martial law an unnecessarily visible developpment.They don’t need it, I believe it would be too much trouble for whatever marginal bang added…
However, if an extraordinary event were to send millions of angry people out in the street (like, say, a predictable -deliberate?- economic meltdown, or another major false flag op)all the legislative, administrative, logistical and military whatnots have been patiently and gradually put in place one by one during the last few years for a swift and complete takeover.
The finishing touch happened on October 17th, with with de facto gutting of the Posse Comitatus Act. On this very date, we kissed the last remaining shred of the american constitution goodbye…There is really not much left to shred now. Most of the legislative groundwork done just circumvent and bypasses the founding documents, without officially revoking them, and the constitution is left to hang on the wall for decoration.
I’m reading in some of these comments that this situation we are in is Martial Law; it is not. Or that it isn’t necessary. This is just the set up – most of society’s gears are still turning.
Martial Law in 21st Century America, when and if it comes, could be more insidious than any model history provides. The technological infrastructure, much of it in place, can track so much more than just your movements. And an awesome amount of resources could be directed when and where “required.†I can imagine it being insidiously localized, effectively publicized, and intensely paralyzing. Pray for chaos.
Fefe, you do not comprehend what has happened to the U.S. if you complain about having your fingerprints taken when you come here. In my book martial law is already a living force that is doing quite well in America, thank you. Martial law doesn’t need an army or tanks. Like a pandemic of the flu, martial law has spread its reach throughout America every day and has been doing so since WWII when corporate heads decided they could take a lesson from Hitler’s book of economy crash, genocide, etc. so to make and take control of PROFITS. We in the U.S. the “tired, poor, huddled masses yearning to be free,” have been the freakin guinea pigs to this great EXPERIMENT called democracy. Martial law in Amerika makes and takes prisoners every day by closing production jobs; cutting jobs; shipping them to Mexico or overseas; bankrupting the treasury for war; “giving” the production of food to corporations; “deciding” whether we’ll use homeopathy or aleopathic medicine. You name it – EVERY ASPECT OF OUR LIVES THAT WE MIGHT HAVE SOME ASPECT OF CONTROL OF HAS BEEN TAKEN OVER BY CORPORATE AMERIKA. So what do you want to come here for Fefe? Are you going to “save” an American who can’t “take” martial law anymore? Are you going to provide food to my unemployed next door neighbor, or give money to them when they need to go to hospital? Take the gun out of their hands when they want to commit suicide when they realize they don’t have what it takes to measure up to “the American dream?” What would you do in these scenarios?
Fefe: for many of us, the U.S. has been our only home. Don’t come here if you don’t like your fingerprints being taken, and please, do shut up. Wherever you are from. Unless you would be so kind to help us in the US find a solution to our woes.
Its hard enough waking up every day in Amerika learning minute by minute that I am the product of one long screw job that I didn’t even enjoy without the likes of someone like you telling me American’s are crap because there is only Chinese junk and plastic food on US store shelves.
Like I didn’t know this already.
The question was “what would you do…” but everyone’s answer so far has been “martial law is already here”.
Doesn’t that kinda imply two things?
1) you didn’t do anything
2) you aren’t going to anything
de facto surrender?
Sorry, I don’t have a solution but I would guess something along the lines “better to light a candle than curse the darkness” might be the next step.
What would I do if Bush declared martial law?
I’m already trying to move outside of the United States, so, hopefully, by the time martial law is declared, I will not be living in the U.S.
Kris
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