The few hundred holdouts on Texas' ravaged Bolivar Peninsula will be required to leave in the next few days, and officials said Tuesday they are ready to use emergency powers to empty the barrier island scraped clean by Hurricane Ike.They survived the first storm. Here comes the second.
"I don't want to do it," he said. "I'm doing it because it's in their best interests."What's in another sovereign human being's "bests interests" ain't your call, judge. How leaving their homes and being placed in a government "shelter" (disarmed of course) is the preferable alternative seems debatable.
What's going to happen if someone still refuses, and is prepared to die--and kill--to defy you, judge?
What happens next will be a lesson to us all. Because it will show what we can expect if it's ever our turn.
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What's going to happen if someone still refuses, and is prepared to die--and kill--to defy you, judge?
What happens next will be a lesson to us all. Because it will show what we can expect if it's ever our turn.
[Via Stephen S]
UPDATE: Per "Comments," they're ready to impose "martial law." Which means we'll get to see if troops enforce disarmament.
What happens next will be a lesson to us all. Because it will show what we can expect if it's ever our turn.
[Via Stephen S]
UPDATE: Per "Comments," they're ready to impose "martial law." Which means we'll get to see if troops enforce disarmament.