100,000 troops here, 100,000 troops there. Before you know it, you're talking serious numbers....

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Japan plans on having 96,000 troops on alert for Y2K. Gee, can you smell marshall law.... (and I don't buy the crap about 12,000 more than normal for new years eve, either)

http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=1999/12/8/80804

-- timemachine (con@tin.uum), December 10, 1999

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Well, I can SMELL martial law, but I don't see it being imposed unless there's an actual NEED. If, just for example, 90% of the population of the industrialised countries try to buy a months food on 31-Dec-1999...

They're just prepping for the unknown, same as us.

-- Servant (public_service@yahoo.com), December 10, 1999.


This whole martial law fear is getting out of hand in my opinion.

Certainly, I don't want to live under a state of martial law any more than anyone else does. However, I also am not crazy about the idea of living in a society where law and order has broken down.

In the unlikely event that martial law is declared it is probably better than if it is not declared under those circumstances.

I for one do not think any government should sit around with their fingers up their butts doing nothing in a society where looting and arson etc. are taking place on a regular basis.

By and large the soldiers are someones brothers and fathers and (I'd better say daughters I suppose!) and do not have ill intentions towards anyone......sure there are some cowboys amongst them but I'll take my chances with them over a gang of anarchic looters any day.

-- Craig (craig@ccinet.ab.ca), December 10, 1999.


Craig, agreed but it has always been about the morals, integrity. loyalty and honor of whose giving the order for martial law.

We have a lot to worry about with the current administration in power (if you want to get sticky about it, we've had a lot to worry about since FDR) and that is why, with a potentially serious event not 3 weeks away, some are getting rather nervous about the plans to announce a 'state of emergency' and 'martial lock-down'.

If you can't see the implication of that, then you are not on the same page as us worriers.

-- OR (orwelliator@biosys.net), December 10, 1999.


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