Large-Scale Role for U.S. Military in Disasters Described As 'Inevitable'

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Large-Scale Role for U.S. Military in Disasters Described As 'Inevitable'
2005-10-15
Buffalo News


By Ann Scott Tyson

The U.S. military is planning a more rapid, robust role for active-duty forces in responding to catastrophic disasters or terrorist attacks, a senior Pentagon official said Wednesday, describing the demand for large-scale military resources in such cases as "inevitable."

Paul McHale, assistant secretary of defense for homeland defense, stressed that the expanded active-duty military response would be limited to rare, mass calamities or attacks in which thousands of lives were at risk -- such as a category 4 hurricane, or a terrorist strike involving chemical, biological or nuclear weapons.

Federal troops also might play a role in enforcing a quarantine in the case of a pandemic outbreak of avian flu or other disease, McHale said, although initially that job would fall to National Guard forces under the command of a state governor.

"We are looking at a wide range of contingencies potentially involving Title 10 forces if a pandemic outbreak of a biological threat were to occur," said McHale, who planned further review of avian flu quarantine measures.


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[LynnTheDem]

2. Sure, what's so bad about MARTIAL LAW for America?

I mean hey, tanks in our streets, troops shooting fellow citizens.

I hope YOU get a Lyndie England guarding your home. :)

RAH RAH RAH!

[Tace]

4. Fuck That

"The general voice from north to south... calls for a bill of rights. It seems pretty generally understood that this should go to juries, habeas corpus, standing armies, printing, religion and monopolies. I conceive there may be difficulty in finding general modifications of these suited to the habits of all the States. But if such cannot be found, then it is better to establish trials by jury, the right of habeas corpus, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion, in all cases, and to abolish standing armies in time of peace, and monopolies in all cases, than not to do it in any. The few cases wherein these things may do evil cannot be weighed against the multitude wherein the want of them will do evil." --Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1788.

"It astonishes me to find... of our countrymen... should be contented to live under a system which leaves to their governors the power of taking from them the trial by jury in civil cases, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of commerce, the habeas corpus laws, and of yoking them with a standing army. This is a degeneracy in the principles of liberty... which I (would not have expected for at least) four centuries." --Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith, 1788. (*) FE 5:3

http://etext.virginia.edu/jefferson/quotations/jeff0950.htm

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3. Meanwhile the Dems are sleeping, once again