To: Southside_Chicago_Republican
Hmmmm. Tough questions. I have to admit, at this point I trust the military more than Congress.
2 posted on
10/04/2005 11:58:22 AM PDT by
Semper Vigilantis
(Peace comes from having superior firepower, the will to use it, and a very short fuse.)
To: Southside_Chicago_Republican
This idea of having the military do everything is stupid and dangerous.
Of course, the primary reason they do it is that the military takes orders and they don't pay them nearly as much as civilians.
3 posted on
10/04/2005 11:58:43 AM PDT by
Brilliant
To: Southside_Chicago_Republican
What about the epidemic of illegal immigrants?
4 posted on
10/04/2005 12:00:25 PM PDT by
Rutles4Ever
(Stuck on Genius)
To: Southside_Chicago_Republican
"revealed Tuesday that any part of the country where the virus breaks out could likely be quarantined and that he is considering using the military to enforce it."
So don't criticize him or he'll send you a bad bucket of chicken and its over for your whole area.
5 posted on
10/04/2005 12:00:33 PM PDT by
Pessimist
To: Southside_Chicago_Republican
I'm really having speechless moments of late.
6 posted on
10/04/2005 12:00:33 PM PDT by
OpusatFR
(Vegetarian, permaculturalist, cloth wearing, green, peak oil believing Trad Catholic Indie.)
To: Southside_Chicago_Republican
The president was asked if his recent talk of giving the military the lead in responding to large natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina and other catastrophes was in part the result of his concerns that state and local personnel aren't up to the task of a flu outbreak. Huh? His recent statements about Katrina were because of worries about a flu outbreak? This seems a really weird kind of question to me.
To: Southside_Chicago_Republican
I keep a food supply on hand for emergencies (mostly I think of hurricanes) but also in case of a quarantine situation, for a biohazard or virus pandemic.
It has crossed my mind that if a flu pandemic would ever break out, they would probably try to use the concentric circle quarantine model, and would probably have at least the police (but no city really has a police force large enough) or the military/National Guard enforce it.
IMO, it is the only way to try to contain a true epidemic.
11 posted on
10/04/2005 12:05:55 PM PDT by
dawn53
To: Southside_Chicago_Republican
This is a bad idea the Posse Commitatus act exists for a reason ! The people of the United States are not particularly fond of the notion of politicians telling the army to go sieze an American city from the control of its elected leaders simply because the President says so. Changing this law is a very very bad idea.
12 posted on
10/04/2005 12:11:28 PM PDT by
Nebr FAL owner
(.308 reach out & thump someone .50 cal.Browning Machine gun reach out & crush someone)
To: Southside_Chicago_Republican
15 posted on
10/04/2005 12:20:05 PM PDT by
My Favorite Headache
("Scientology is dangerous stuff,it's like forming a religion based around Johnny Quest and Haji.")
To: Southside_Chicago_Republican
Besides the bird flu, hurricanes, terrorism, there's also the danger of freedom breaking out which might require a military response. Incrementalist Federalist fascism. Why is Bush hell bent on leaving President Hillary with a renewed Patriot law and a greater authority to deploy the military in the States.
To: Southside_Chicago_Republican
I'm thinking the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) should have full jurisdiction to call upon troops over such a situation, definitely not the military.
21 posted on
10/04/2005 12:43:25 PM PDT by
Realism
(Some believe that the facts-of-life are open to debate.....)
To: Southside_Chicago_Republican
Just posted this on another similar thread:
There is no vaccine for the Avian flu. It is still mutating/recombining so it's not possible to make a vaccine for it yet.
If anyone wants to read about it, read here - with info and commentary by some very knowldegeable and educated freepers and articles from all over:
Avian Flu Surveillance Project ^
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1399613/posts
And apparently Tamiflu may not be effective against the Avian flu.
24 posted on
10/04/2005 1:15:09 PM PDT by
little jeremiah
(A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, are incompatible with freedom. P. Henry)
To: Southside_Chicago_Republican
And the swine flu back in the 1970's was supposed to kill millions, but the vaccine ended up killing more people than the flu.
28 posted on
10/04/2005 1:25:23 PM PDT by
aomagrat
(Let us read from the book of Ruger, chapter 3, verse 57.)
To: Southside_Chicago_Republican
Why is this President hell bent on expanding executive branch use of the military to solve emergencies? Does he want to take over all fifty state governments' responsibilities?
The Stafford Act defines the federal response to emergency situations.
32 posted on
10/04/2005 2:35:09 PM PDT by
afnamvet
To: Southside_Chicago_Republican
I am not that comfortable revoking Posse Comatas (sp).
Ask yourself, do you want President Hillary with this?
34 posted on
10/04/2005 2:52:19 PM PDT by
redgolum
("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
To: windcliff
To: Southside_Chicago_Republican
No, no and no. Then again, just to get in the spirit of things, lets revoke the Posse Comitatus in the case of an increase in paper cuts in a certain area. In fact, lets just have the military patrol the streets to keep us all safe and snuggly.
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