Pretext for Martial Law: bird flu

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Pretext for more martial law: bird flu

By Larry Chin
Online Journal Associate Editor

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October 6, 2005—George W. Bush and his administration announced yesterday that they intend to dispatch federal troops to enforce quarantines in the event of an alleged bird flu outbreak, raising immediate prospect that in the not-distant future, soldiers will cordon off American communities suspected of flu outbreaks.

This followed a closed-door session in which the US Congress was propagandized about a bird flu pandemic scenario by the Bush administration's Health and Human Services secretary, Michael Leavitt. This session "scared the hell" out of Senator Harry Reid, and other congressional leaders, who are not only poised to grant Bush authority to call in troops when he chooses, but are in the process of introducing a new bill calling for the creation of a "flu pandemic coordinator" within the White House—placing yet more power directly into the hands of Bush and future presidents.

In response, Dr. Irwin Redlener, associate dean of Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and director of its National Center for Disaster Preparedness, blasted Bush's "extraordinarily Draconian measure," and said it plainly:

"The translation of this is martial law in the United States."