Reply #11: Heads exploding in Freeperville. [View All]

[tanyev]

Is it just me, or is our President looking for more and more situations in which the Commander-in-Chief should be allowed to use American military forces on our own soil?

To: NJ_gent
Is it just me, or is our President looking for more and more situations in which the Commander-in-Chief should be allowed to use American military forces on our own soil?
I think it's a case of "If you all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail."

To: areafiftyone
Floods
Bird Flu
Sars
Earthquake
Wrong Election Outcome
Terrorists
Ice storm
...

To: NJ_gent
Is it just me, or is our President looking for more and more situations in which the Commander-in-Chief should be allowed to use American military forces on our own soil?
It ain't just you.

This should be a last-ditch emergency proposal - NG should be used first. A lot more people died from government last century than died in the great flu pandemic.


To: Windsong
Ridiculous....
" Bird flu has killed more than 60 people in four Asian nations since late 2003 and has been found in birds in Russia and Europe."

Let's get some perspective:
How many have died from the 'plain old' flu in this time period?
From Drunk drivers?
From food poisoning?
From an infection after stubbing their toe?

Can we mobilize the military against the citizens if there are mass toe stubbings?


To: areafiftyone
I think the President needs to rethink some things. He's going to be explaining this comment and Ms. Miers for the next month.

To: NJ_gent
I wonder if it wouldn't be a bit more effective to let the local police do the enforcement and focus on medical preparedness: prevention, treatments, distribution networks and suchlike before we end up with de facto martial law.

To: Artemis Webb
Bush: "Trust Me".

Really?


To: areafiftyone; billbears
30 people died out of 1.6 billion over a two year span and he wants Congressional pre-approval to use the military to restrict the rights of Americans to freely move?

Bullfarts.

To: areafiftyone
Just image the outrage on FreeRepublic if Bill Clinton would have asked for such power.

To: Artemis Webb
If your kids or wife is dying..along with half a million other Americans in the next pandemic I am "just wondering" what your thoughts will be then.
I'll be praying for our overlords in Washington to declare martial law and take good care of me, of course. Without them, I'm helpless.

To: areafiftyone
Someone needs to tell Big Government George that when he swore an oath to defend the Constitution from all enemies both foreign and domestic that included himself.
To: NJ_gent
It's not just you. It's beginning to make me uneasy, to say the least.

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