Life as you know it is simply going to completely shut down as your city will come to resemble a war zone more than the peaceful and idyllic life you once knew. Checkpoints will be set up at all streets and corners, and roads, bridges, and tunnels leading outside of the city will be blocked so that no one can get in or out without express permission of the authorities who are in control. The next thing you can expect to have happen under martial law is a military-enforced curfew. Since free speech and freedom of the press will be suspended, the authorities will instead be broadcasting out propaganda messages in a further attempt to control and influence the population. You can also expect to hear propaganda from the forces in control, and lots of it. Literally everyone will be treated as a suspect, and simply being seen talking with the wrong person or making a bad gesture could land you in heaps amounts of trouble. Since rights (or at least most rights) will have been suspended, you can guarantee the military and law enforcement units in control will be making arrests left and right. In fact, even the right to own property will be suspended, and anything and everything you own can become seized by the government (more on this in a bit). This means that the United States Constitution would be suspended, and along with it, so would the rights to free speech and freedom of the press, to keep and bear arms, to a fair and speedy trial, and everything else. Regardless of what causes it to happen, here is what you can reasonably expect to happen under martial law whether it happens on a local, statewide, or Federal basis: Suspension of Rightsįirst and foremost, declared martial law will almost certainly result in the suspension of rights. That being said, martial law has also been officially called throughout United States history, such as in 1941 in Hawaii in response to the attack on Pearl Harbor and in San Francisco in 1934 in response to a massive workers’ strike and subsequent rioting. The term ‘virtual’ martial law is used here because the term ‘martial law’ does not exist in Louisiana law, but nonetheless, a state of emergency was declared and many elements of martial law were put into place. Most notably in more recent memory, ‘virtual martial law’ was declared in response to Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana in 2005. Martial law has been declared in the United States before. Massive Riots and/or Disobedience of the Law.Martial law is simply defined as the imposition of direct military control over a country, state, city, or other defined area, and involving the suspension of normal law.Ī wide variety of things can trigger martial law to be declared, including but not limited to: Few people, both preppers and non-preppers, are anywhere near prepared for what would happen if the government were to ever declare martial law.
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