Re: Bird Flu

This is just the "NEWS" story, but the military itself is being told in no
uncertain terms just how that is going to be enforced, and how it is to be
carried out! They are not just going to be saying please keep behind the
line, but are being instructed to shoot to kill any disruptive individuals
which will motivate other civilians to comply

"leslie" <LESLIE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Neal (nbrown12@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
: Organizing the military for the flu???? Where can we look at that?
:
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/10/05/bush.reax/
CNN.com - Bush military bird flu role slammed - Oct 5, 2005

"Bush military bird flu role slammed

Consequences of an outbreak in U.S. need to be addressed before
catastrophe strikes, Bush said.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A call by President George W. Bush for Congress to
give him the power to use the military in law enforcement roles in the
event of a bird flu pandemic has been criticized as akin to
introducing martial law.

Bush said aggressive action would be needed to prevent a potentially
disastrous U.S. outbreak of the disease that is sweeping through Asian
poultry and which experts fear could mutate to pass between humans.

Such a deadly event would raise difficult questions, such as how a
quarantine might be enforced, the president said.

"I'm concerned about what an avian flu outbreak could mean for the
United States and the world," he told reporters during a Rose Garden
news conference on Tuesday.

"One option is the use of a military that's able to plan and move," he
said. "So that's why I put it on the table. I think it's an important
debate for Congress to have."

The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 bans the military from participating
in police-type activity on U.S. soil.

But Dr. Irwin Redlener, associate dean of Columbia University's
Mailman School of Public Health and director of its National Center
for Disaster Preparedness, told The Associated Press the president's
suggestion was dangerous..."


Jerry


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