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| A poster promoting martial law |
It's the phrase that I thought of when we were discussing martial law during the Civil War. This conversation led to talking about Hurricane Katrina, and Mr. O'Connor told us about issues of civil liberties that occurred in the aftermath of the hurricane. He explained that innocent people were kept in barbed wire fences, in dog cages, without the ability to contact others.
I was horrified by this, and immediately went home and searched it on Google. After half an hour of searching, however, I still hadn't found a single article about it, other than one article stating that no real martial law was declared in Louisiana. Did those terrible events really happen? And if they did, why don't I and other Americans have information about them readily available to us? Does the fact that there was a natural disaster really make those events acceptable like what is allowed in love and war?
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ReplyDeleteNo circumstances should permit people being put in cages and forbidden contact with family. Given, I don't know much about the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In war, or more accurately in fear, the government reacts differently than when at peace. So even though the country was not dealing with war, it was most definitely working in fear. The question then, is: how can a government treat citizens in perilous times? I guess in this context, the definition of "perilous" is different than what we've been discussing so far.