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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-05 07:42 PM
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Poll question: Martial law? Or Nuclear armageddon?
America is still the key stone to the world economy. Should we fall, so does the world. Martial law will be declared once our economy fails.

Additionally, a terrorist attack will induce the same effect.

Meanwhile it is now acceptable to do pre-emptive nuking.

Which will happen first.
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cynatnite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-05 07:44 PM
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1. Is that all I have to choose from?
No plagues or viruses? No asteroids? No boiling planet due to global warming?

I really don't think either will happen.
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sarcasmo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-05 07:45 PM
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2. Most World Leaders know the results of the Nuke.
Martial Law is much more appealing to our Government.
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NMDemDist2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-05 07:45 PM
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3. my my aren't we cheerful tonight! is this really necessary? n/t
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txindy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-05 08:29 PM
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11. That was my question.
You beat me to it! ;)
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kohodog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-05 07:45 PM
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4. Morning Dew
Edited on Tue Sep-13-05 07:46 PM by kohodog
These guys will bring nuclear winter before giving in to economic destruction on their watch.

edit: sp
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TallahasseeGrannie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-05 07:45 PM
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5. Wow! What a happy little poll.
Cripes I need a drink.

Let's see... nukes, martial law.

martial law... nukes.

I say nukes then no law at all.
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RaleighNCDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-05 07:46 PM
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6. Martial law.
It only makes sense. Don't want a possible uprising at home when launching foreign adventures.

The concentration camps in Germany were in full swing for years before September 1939.
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TallahasseeGrannie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-05 08:02 PM
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9. Were they really?
That is something I did not know.
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RaleighNCDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-05 08:24 PM
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10. A lot more opened after the war started, but before the war:
Breitenau, Dachau, Oranienburg, Osthofen ('33); Sachsenhausen ('36); Buchenwald ('37); Flossenburg, Mauthausen, Neuengamme ('38).

They had different designations -- collection points, labor camps, prisons -- and none were begun as death camps, like Treblinka or Sobribor -- but they put the apparatus in place and all the later horrors developed out of these beginnings.
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TallahasseeGrannie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 07:56 AM
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12. Thanks for enlightening me.
Those were bad times and we should all know the facts.
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Mz Pip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-05 07:46 PM
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7. Can't we have both??
I'm feeling particularly festive tonight, so I will pick both.

Mz Pip
:dem:
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enigami Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-05 07:55 PM
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8. I picked a bad day to quit drinking n/t
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mmonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-05 07:59 AM
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13. both
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