2007-11-05 04:54:31 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
honestly in the us that is a difficult question because similar things have been done over and over on a smaller scale..
the state of emergency at the WTO Seattle 99
undeclared martial law Philadelphia RNC 2000
The pseudo never declared martial law complete with APCs and M16s in Miami during the FTAA meetings in 2003
The martial Law, (complete with rockets tanks etc) during the G8 in Sea Island Georgia 2004
Undeclared martial law in boston durring the DNC and NYC during the RNC in 2004
the siege of New Orleans by blackwater
those are just occasions that I witnessed, in the past 9 years, there was no uprising, no large groups of citizens denouncing the government for it's abuse of power upon it's own citizenry... US citizens for the most part just rolled over and took that crap most without even giving it a second thought.
2007-11-05 05:04:57 · answer #1 · answered by vegan_geek 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Let pick apart your insanity, Kent State? On May 4, 1970 four students were shot and killed during protest at Kent State in Ohio. Thousands of students were running amuck during those days and the national guard was called out to back up the police. Fires had been set and the police attacked by protesters. The Guard was ill prepared; they had no riot training and only had armor piercing bullets in their weapons. At one point they found themselves being surrounded by hostile protesters throwing rocks, bottles, and a few molotov cocktails. Like the British 200 hundred years earlier the Guard found themselves being alternately taunted and threatened. A young officer ordered his men to point their weapons at the crowd(which outnumbered his men by about 20 to 1) to frighten the crowd back. Someone fired a weapon! The Guard soldiers began to fire in, near, or over the crowd. The firing stopped and then began again. Panic set in when the protesters realized what happened and began to run away. It was a tragic moment considering that half of the dead were not involved in the protest. I mentioned the Boston Massacre for a reason. John Adams defended the soldiers in that instance and they were found innocent just as the modern day Guardsmen were found innocent of purposely killing the protesters. (source: James Mitchener) Bush has signed no such resolutions nimrod. I say that you are wrong. So now you have to come up with proof of your claims. Can you? I think not. On to the bigger question; If this country was under attack by terrorist elements backed up by street gangs and illegal aliens I would support maritial law and justice. If you think that any President could just declare martial law to stay in power then you are truly demented. The military (which has more common sense than you possess) would respected refuse to obey the orders of a man and follow the words of the Constitution. (source: veteran) Throwing around the word Nazi huh. Okay I win the argument since you started name calling. I am a veteran and I understand so much more than you. Yes, I did give you a short history lesson and I didn't even charge you anything. What is your military experience? By the way, this country has found parts of it under martial law from time to time. Seems that we survived.
2016-04-02 06:26:24 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Kind of seems like Pakistan is a testing ground, hopefully someone will invent a suit that would shock anybody who is touching it, plus it would have to have some Kevlar in it too. Thus preventing individuals wearing the suits form being falsely arrested.
2007-11-05 05:02:07 · answer #3 · answered by Yahoo 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Honestly I think Pakistan is a test run for the USA.
I am not sure it would be as hard to do the same thing here. I am not sure so many people are willing to die for their country.
Many Americans have been so used to freedom its hard to say what would happen.
What I wonder is...Will the military actually turn on its own people?
2007-11-05 05:04:43 · answer #4 · answered by letfreedomring 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Arrested lawyers?
Americans would be scrambling to put Bush's profile
on Mount Rushmore.
2007-11-05 05:01:05 · answer #5 · answered by Lynn G 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
How much complacency and comfort are Middle Class Americans willing to jeopardize??
Not much is my guess.
As long as Desperate Housewives and WWE and Starbucks and Wal-Mart and the ATM's were all still functioning as usual ........not much!
2007-11-05 05:07:07 · answer #6 · answered by Kelly B 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
" A scenario like this is precisely why we have the Second Amendment"
I wouldn't waste my second Amendment rights on some lawyer. Especially some ACLU nut job. I would probably help them round the commie idiots up.
2007-11-05 05:04:25 · answer #7 · answered by The Patrioteer 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I am sure most people will find a way to blame it on Radical Islam or Christianity!
I say blame it on the Pope!
2007-11-05 05:01:37 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't know.
How did America act when Roosevelt threw all the American-Japanese in concentration camps?
2007-11-05 05:02:50 · answer #9 · answered by Philip McCrevice 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
They would probably be really angry until they saw the lawyers being arrested. Then they'd say "Maybe this ain't so bad."
2007-11-05 04:58:08 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋