Okay this is your only warning on this.
Stick to the facts and the op. The op has nothing to do with martial law or executive orders. This is the end of that subject matter in this forum. If you can't stick to the facts, then don't post. You want to post things about executive orders that have been around a lot longer than Obama and specualtion on them knowing that a massive solar flare is coming and are making plans.........post it in the correct forum.
Crazy Horse, it seems that some have misunderstood the intent of my vague reference in one sentence to "martial law". For that I apologize.
I have no intention whatsoever to discuss "martial law" in this thread, nor its progressive enablement over a series of administrations going back as far as the 1950's. Also when I indicated "....
activity ... regarding martial law", I was not in any way referencing its current implementation. I guess I can see how the phrase might be misinterpreted to involve some sort of current enactment, however such an interpretation really does not fit in with anything I had said previously, nor the discussion of a possible future impact of a strong solar storm, making that interpretation extremely out of context.
I simply was recognizing "the fact" of the ability to enact of Martial law, in the event of social collapse. Believing anything more than this is only the reader projecting an interpretation that I did not intend to indicate, and nowhere even implied.
Crazy Horse, given your own recognition that the ability enact martial law has existed across numerous Presidential administrations, I would submit that you also recognize the
potential to institute martial law as "a fact", and not merely some fanciful fabrication.
My vague, one sentence, reference to martial law, was only the logical extension from the cited reference immediately prior to my comment, of a 2009 study commissioned by
NASA, undertaken by the
National Academy of Sciences, and reported by FOX News, entitled
"Powerful Solar Storm Could Shut Down U.S. for Months":
- Heading: 'Command and control might be lost'
Such widespread power outages, though expected to be a rare possibility, would affect other vital systems.
"Impacts would be felt on interdependent infrastructures with, for example, potable water distribution affected within several hours; perishable foods and medications lost in 12-24 hours; immediate or eventual loss of heating/air conditioning, sewage disposal, phone service, transportation, fuel resupply and so on," the report states.
Outages could take months to fix, the researchers say. Banks might close, and trade with other countries might halt.
"Emergency services would be strained, and command and control might be lost," write the researchers, led by Daniel Baker, director of the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado in Boulder.
While the enactment of martial law is not specifically referenced by this FOX article, I am secure in the fact that conditions resulting in the simultaneous collapse of
power, food, water, medicine, banking, communication, and transportation systems, all of which are referenced, necessitates the institution of martial law. It is no great leap that the "loss of command and control" requires the enablement of some other system of command and control, with such a system obviously being martial law itself.
I apologize if my vague reference to "martial law" gave the impression I somehow intended to discuss the political merits of martial law in a science forum, or seemed to imply that martial law was in any way being implemented at this time. Neither of those were ever my intent.