I am not real thrilled with things like the suspension of the Second Amendment in the NO LA area. Try as I may, I just can't see any Consitutional
mechanism (i.e., actual Martial Law invocation) for what they're doing.
No, I'm not a Constitutional attorney. But, I'm not an idiot, either. And I've got a pretty decent nose for BS.
I do tend to agree with those who've characterized this as an exercise, a prototype, something that'll give us an idea of what to expect when/if
there are widespread disasters in the future (such as terrorist hits, war, major earthquakes, etc.)
With that in mind, I think we're likely to see a variety of MOs being tried out for size. Maybe in the wilds of Oklahoma they'll billet people in a
Baptist campground. (From the time I spent in a SBC campground in another midwestern state, it seems like they've picked a pretty swank place, as
SBC campgrounds go.)
And, maybe in another location, they'll try putting people into an out of the way "officially" shut-down military base. One that's maybe ONLY
accessible via air.
In another location, maybe they'll try selecting an out of the way town, and "informing" the residents that they WILL be housing "guest" families
-- in their own homes!
During each of these trial runs, there'll be reams of notetaking, chin-scratching, and "lessons learned".
For the military, the Gulf Disaster is in a way the best thing they could ever have hoped for. It makes the "TOPOFF" exercises look like sad jokes.
They will be able to study the dickens out of this disaster -- and, if my hunch is correct, they'll be doing more than a little bit of "active"
studying, as I mused above.
I'm not much of a conspiracy theorist, but I do like to think of myself as a bit of a pragmatist, with a bit of a faulty denial mechanism.
With that in mind, I've for some time had the idea that if we ever do experience a real "TSHTF" situation in this country, the way the government
would deal with it would be to basically cordon off the affected city(ies), and wait for the smoke to stop rising. Then, they'd send in the cleanup
crews, and "renovate", sans "useless eaters".
When I watched Shep Smith literally freaking out as he screamed about the starving people in the stadium, and the ONE road out of the city being
blocked, I said to myself, "Um hum... yup, sounds about right."
Earlier today, I heard news reports that they actually SHOT "over the heads" of anyone who even approached the roadblock.
A real Catch-22 they created down NO LA way. They decided to starve the refugees out, to get them moving (shades of Stalin and Mao and Pol Pot
and...) -- but, they ALSO decided to block their way, and lock them inside that pressure cooker!
Talk about "damned if you do/damned if you don't"!
But, what that "Catch-22" DID accomplish was to accelerate the "experiment" that I suspect was being conducted. Want to see how a certain
"compound" will react after a certain amount of time -- but, you want the results without waiting?
Then "apply heat".
Here's another thing that bugs me:
We were told that they were parceling the refugees out in lots of ten thousand per state.
Then, the feds started declaring each recipient state a "disaster area", supposedly to facillitate "services" and so forth.
But now I'm hearing that the numbers, at least in some states, aren't anything NEAR ten thousand. In fact, they're not even anything near ONE
thousand!
But yet, the "disaster area" declarations remain in effect!
So I wonder, what are the implications for these states -- the ones declared disaster areas? Are these states subject to martial law, and/or other
"things" of that sort?
Then there's the VERY strange "mode of transportation".
They put people on airplanes, but, they would NOT tell them where they were going until the planes had taken off!
Wow!
Can you picture this scene? You're about to get on a plane -- the rest of your exended family are about to get on two or three other planes.
You want to stay in touch with them - but HOW would that even be possible?
You can't tell THEM where YOU'RE going, and THEY can't tell YOU where THEY'RE going!
What are you going to do to keep in touch with your family and your friends who are being put on disparate "high-tech forced-marches"?
Advantage State -- IF the goal is an "experiment" to "maintain large scale population/crowd control."
No need to worry about "trouble", if the "troublemakers" haven't the foggiest idea of where they are, or where anyone ELSE is!
Sort of a "kinder, gentler" series of cattlecar trains departing for regions unknown?
I dunno. I'm open to alternate explanations, so long as they're rational.
"It can't happen here" is not "rational" in my book.