Reflections on the "New American" Revolution
Friday, October 14, 2005
Making it easier for the president to declare martial law
Bush says he's considering deploying the military to enforce rapid command and control measures. Given the churn of the world's population, with tens if not hundreds of thousands of people flying into and out of this country every day, it's doubtful that any post-outbreak military action short of a total national quarantine would be at all effective. And that would mean a national lockdown that some ranking military officers are loath to contemplate, the Los Angeles Times reported.
"We're trying to put some plans in place," Bush told reporters. Those plans would be better directed at resuscitating a moribund domestic vaccine industry, proven so wanting when supplies ran out last year.
The primary role of the military is to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic," not to supplant civil authority.
What Bush is thinking about could change for much the worse a relationship between a free people and their sworn protectors more than 200 years in the making. He'd better think again.
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