[Mr. K]

Or you declare martial law and ‘suspend’ everything.

In effect you just tell everyone to keep doing what they did yesterday, but with a gun to shoot anybody who objects.

[Starboard]

Or you declare martial law and ‘suspend’ everything.

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Yes, all in the name of protecting us and “ensuring national stability in this time of great crisis”. All temporary measures, of course. /sarc

[JoeFromSidney]

In effect you just tell everyone to keep doing what they did yesterday, but with a gun to shoot anybody who objects

The government doesn't have enough guns for that.