A view of Martial Law

 

Guest Post: by ‘Be informed’
People in the United States and most western countries have no idea what it is like to suddenly lose almost or all of their civil rights. People have no concept of the feeling of everything they say and do being controlled and regulated practically within an instant. Losing all free speech, and free movement is mostly restricted. Everything is watched and privacy is no more. Constitutions are suspended or torn up. Unwritten rules, usually by one group, govern everyone in absoluteness. Life under martial law is something many people don’t understand.

There is a grave misconception that martial law is always a temporary “extra” police force to enforce a country’s laws and bring peaceful order. In reality martial law can last lifetimes, as is the case in many countries.

Some of the ways a country can come under martial law include; natural calamities, economic collapse, war, terrorism, pandemic outbreak, government coup, mass civil unrest, food shortages, in short, any large enough emergency that shut down or severely hinder the order of the country’s governing powers to govern as it has before martial law.

Under martial law people should remember these issues:

- Martial law is a police state.

- Most of the time the police and military are not there to protect you, they are there to control you.

- Forget about privacy, you and and anything you own is available to full searches anytime.

- ANYTHING you have can be seized and taken.

- You can be moved to any location for any reason, they will probably tell you it is for safety purposes.

- You can be immediately “drafted” into doing just about anything.

- You are always under suspicion and watched closely under intense surveillance.

- You can be arrested and found guilty under just about any drummed up charge, and forget about any reasonable legal counsel.

- ALL police forces if given absolute powers will end up behaving like German Gestapo, it is human nature.

- Any talk against the governing forces and you will be classified as an immediate threat.

- You are probably a number rather than a name.

- You will probably have to undergo security measures that go against your beliefs and what you stand for, especially means of identification like implants, tattoos, or less evasive like retina scans, fingerprinting, ID card.

- People around you, your family, friends neighbors, can suddenly disappear permanently without any reason given.

- Get used to censorship of everything that “they” do not want to be said.

- Know that it is not business as usual, your life, your world has taken an abrupt complete turn to something you probably never expected or dreamed off.

Could never happen in my country you say! Many people have thought this throughout history to find out quite differently. In the United States for example “awaits” a whole list of what is called executive orders that ANY president can declare under the sole authority of their office that are in reality a declaration of martial law. These same methods of executive powers have been used by governments, such as Hitler, to turn a free country into a complete police state.

Lets look at these executive orders of the USA that are nothing more than the foundations of martial law.

Executive Order 10995: All communications and media are to be seized by the federal government, radio, TV, newspapers, CB, Ham, telephones, internet, EVERY form of communications under federal control.

Executive Order 10997: All electrical power, fuels, all minerals seized by the federal government.

Executive Order 10998: All food resources, farms, farm equipment seized by government, also food hoarding prohibited.

Executive Order 10999: All forms of transportation under government control, all vehicles can be seized.

Executive Order 11000: All civilians can be used for work under federal supervision.

Executive Order 11490: Establish presidential control over all U.S. citizens, businesses, churches, everything.

Executive Order 12919: Directs various cabinet officials to be constantly ready to take over virtually all aspects of the U.S. economy during a state of national emergency at the direction of the president.

Executive Order 13010: Directs FEMA to take control over ALL government agencies, FEMA is under control of executive branch, the president.

Executive Order 12656: Assignment of emergency preparedness responsibilities. Anything that threatens the national security of the United States allows federal take over of ALL local law enforcement
agencies, wage and price controls. Prohibits you from moving in and out of the USA, in other words creates a giant walled in police state.

These executive orders are real LAWS that can be used by the president during any emergency the president of the U.S. deems necessary to use. Other countries have other measures that they can use to begin martial law also. It can happen anywhere.

Living through martial law:

People can take the feeling of give me liberty or give me death, but in reality most people do not want to actually die solely for the freedoms that they have been accustomed to being gone. While organizing small to even large groups to protest and go against the polce and military forces might work while you still have rights, during a true martial law situation it is likely to get you killed or disappeared. Many past martial law events such as the French Resistance of World War 2 was eventually successful ONLY after massive outside allied help. Unless you can organize a huge rebel force against those in control, you and those around you will not have the firepower or raw trained manpower to wage any reasonable resistance and you will lose. Might be worth it to some.

To survive the horrors of martial law you can try the following:

- Hide or try to get away from the center areas of the most intense martial law which would be the places with the most people. This is fleeing into the countryside and wilderness. Depending on the sophistication of the government’s ability to find those that are hiding need to be taken in consideration.

- Try to get out of the country and find a country that will give you asylum. This is a problem if other countries are also experiencing breakdowns of their governments. Also the government is going to be alerted to many other individuals trying to do the same thing, escape from ……….

- Attempt to wait out the new “regime” and hope that your rights and the government will be restored. The longer there is martial law the less likely that the police state will go away. The less support against the new government from outside governments, the less likely anything is going to change for the better.

- Conform to what those want of you and agree to everything they say, cause no problems, be quiet and silent. If you can stand it this may be the ONLY way you can survive in such a situation. The government will need workers that are obedient and cause no disruption. You can act submissive to make those in charge feel you are not any problem, and still not believe it and wait until something happens, an opportunity to escape or even be part of some rebellion.

- Join the police or military force, become part of them and support those in control. Praise and believable support is key here. Many people sell out in life for security, money, any type of gratuities, in this case it could be your life. Those in control will usually protect and save those that are loyal to the state from what others that they deem as disposable will suffer from. It is a lot more difficult to shoot someone that will gladly work for the cause and that they consider part of whatever they have established. Of course selling out your soul in a sense could be a real problem.

The real key word to living through a true martial law situation is to ADAPT. Any sudden ruling party, military and police is going to be changing all the time, it is not as stable as people think. If you can adapt to this change under martial law your chances of survival through this nightmare will improve a lot.

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