Thread by @DonShift3

Part 3, what wartime and martial law in CONUS is like for civilians.

In short, you thought COVID was bad and the Patriot Act draconian? We're going full bootstomp.

On the practical side, airports will probably be closed 9/11 style for at least the first day out west. Then flights and travel will be restricted, certainly internationally. Cancel your Hawaiian vacation.

Second, martial law in the US means the military can engage in police duties & subject civilians to court martials. This can only happen in places where the courts are non-functional b/c of war or insurrection. The Guard will be federalized so they won't have state police powers.

Second, state emergency regulations allow governors to become basically dictators and pass whatever restrictions they want. We survived through COVID, we know, but look for them to get extra stupid in a real shooting war. It'll probably be less annoying but more insidious.

But first, what powers do they have now? Federal law authorizing the military to run the show is sketchy. The military can, because it's the freaking military, kick people out and order them around in combat zones. They will.

Say in the Chinese SF raid scenario, will the Army cordon off an area and search it? Yep. Will they block the roads? Yep. Will they forcibly evacuate citizens? Probably. Did JBLM shut down I-5 because of a military need? Well, your commute from Tacoma to Seattle is gonna suck.

People will scream and shout because "there's no authority for them to do this!" and inevitably exactly that authority and worse will be included in whatever War Powers Act the uniparty in Congress passes. Heck, they might even repeal posse commitatus.

At the state level, the real effects will probably be pretty benign. Areas closed to the public (like say Malibu, the beaches near Pendleton in Oceanside, or San Diego). Maybe a lower speed limit or prohibitions on driving due to gas shortages.

We don't know exactly, but stuff can get stupid, as COVID showed us. I would bet on travel restrictions for wartime conservation, to prevent the movement of Chinese agents/commandoes, or some such BS. Expect large and weird closures for vague reasons.

Will we see internment camps? Nope, we probably won't even kick out Chinese nationals because that would be racist. China will laugh at us and continually exploit this during the whole war

50 U.S. Code § 21 law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/50… Restraint, regulation, & removal of enemy aliens

You thought the PATRIOT Act was too much and the anti-TikTok RESTRICT Act went way too far? You ain't seen nothing yet. Whatever the deep state wants, they'll get. Congress will basically shred the rest of the 4th Amd. in the name of national cybersecurity.

What's worse is that all the people who freaked out b/c their Internet and phones didn't work for a couple of hours will be demanding that we #dosomething and secure cyberspace. Online privacy will be dead. Using VPNs or anonymous Twitter accounts will be terrorism or treason.

Here are some fun laws:
18 U.S. Code § 795-Photographing and sketching defense installations. Don't post that pic of the base front gate on IG! Letting the Chinese know that Burpelson AFB is at THREATCON Delta is letting China win.

18 USC § 2388-willfully obstructs the recruiting or enlistment service of the United States. Did you hold an anti-war protest or tweet that people shouldn't join the military to just go and die in a pointless war against China? Federal crime

Full-throat crackdown in the name of stopping China will come. It'll be the totalitarian's dream.

Pt. 4, the last one, What will life like be for the civilian?

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