[Icthus]

"..Public health officials can assume control of hospital and clinic operations. State control of communication facilities, food distribution, fuel supply, and real estate is authorized.

State rationing of food, fuel, clothing, alcohol, firearms, and other commodities is authorized.

The Model State Emergency Health Powers Act, prepared for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was written by Lawrence O. Gostin, J.D., Professor and Director of the Center for Law and the Public's Health at Georgetown University Law Center. It is meant to provide a template for state legislation. A draft version of the Act was released October 23, 2001..."

I was somewhat skeptical too, until I looked it up. From the sounds of things, Uncle Sam is expecting a Bioterrorist attack in the not to distant future.

[dead]

From the sounds of things, Uncle Sam is expecting a Bioterrorist attack in the not to distant future.

Rationing guns is the surest way to exacerbate the problem.

[thinden]

"Granting governors the power to declare a "bioterrorism emergency," the proposal, as originally written, would have allowed them to quarantine the population, take property, and ration food and guns. People who don't go along could be jailed."

hear there's a nice little fixer upper down the road from you.

[Steakumm]

Drastic times need drastic measures, Remember those who scream the loudest about thier civil rights are also the ones who are against defending those rights, we need to have plans in place for the worst possible senario, to not do that would be incredibly stupid.