What to come?

I wonder…

Where the plans are stored that discuss the details related to a US Military run “control mechanism” breaks down the United States of America into 130 (random number…sorta) clearly defined and separated (by various things – rivers, troops and wilderness would be the big ones I suspect) pieces of land so as to control the societal chaos caused by who knows what (world famine, financial collapse, military invasion, government corruption, disease or any numbers of world wide calamities)? What is the logic behind how you dissect 300 million individualistic peoples who are used to their right to bear arms? Would we be able to resist like the Iraqi population (who they are fighting changes at times…)? Would the force of the military be so great in the states in combination with the possible support of the local police forces that society could be controlled in the same sense a rumbling herd is moved and culled along the edges over time?

We clearly have a desire to plan for the control of all places that could cause disruptions to the potential safety of the United States of America. Society tearing at its roots would be very bad for an economy of such significant connectedness. The web of America’s business is significant. If the military no longer has the economic engine running behind it, there is nothing it can do because it is only made of the people from that world. Of course, there is a point where the military and government as well as all the direct supporting pieces are so large in size that they would very easily be their own community without the need for a significant independent civilian world…but I don’t think our beast is that strong.

Curfews, constantly moving military vehicles scouring the land, controlled and moderated news, roving bands of vigilantes rolling around the land taking as their weapons can and all the other concepts of societal revolt could quickly convene. We know the Pentagon would rather spend the time and have plans in place for things that are highly unlikely rather than have no plans at all. And since societal revolt is something that has occurred continually somewhere since man first began gathering, I would think that would be something of decent chance of happening. Los Angeles is the most recent example of the people running the show in a scary world. 1968 apparently scared the book writers as well. We can’t control Iraq (26 M people – about 1/11^th of the US total), who is to say we can take care of our own people? Would all of the US military currently stationed all over the world suddenly converge here and leave more of the world open to its own evolutions? Can we hope to reasonably save millions from internal combat?

At what point would the birds of war in the Air Force bring down their own version hell? Would the troops support overly stringent measures on an individual level? Would the redisbursement from their local area be enough to allow them to shoot as trained? How much control would the states have now that the President has pulled the power of the National Guard from the governors as well as gotten the houses to agree to allow for the stationing of American troops for purpose of acting in their profession (following up the precedent of using troops in the aftermath of the hurricane in New Orleans recently)?

Things change. The world moves. Every once in a while terrible things happen and the tables have to be righted. There are people who are paid to think of these things.