What the Hell is Going On On the East Coast?

[Wing Commander MAD]

Anyone who cuts the head off the snake by attacking DC is going to discover the US is a 50-headed hydra. Oh, and you're going to face 300+ million really pissed off people, many already armed, who have a bad habit of invading and trashing countries for small-scale attacks much less a direct hit on their capital. If you take out the Federal government (which hitting DC isn't going to do - sure, you'll kill a lot of them but the US has had contingency plans for losing DC for at least 60 years if not more) that still leaves the 50 states with intact governments and their own militaries (the National Guard) armed with modern weapons.

Yes, most definitely. I probably should have been more clear and tad more serious. People will care about being attacked, they aren't likely to care much if some or most of the politicians making up the government are lost. They're not well liked and quite replaceable in the long term. There is also a clear line of succession in place, and to get to a point where you might paralyze the U.S. temporarily from lack of leadership is no small task. You'd have to take out the president, vice president, the entire cabinet, the governors of every state, and probably the entire state government apparatus of each state as well to ensure the governor's aren't replaced. Hell, you don't even have a good sized chunk of the population of the country in and around the capital like you do in some other countries, so you can't even exert influence over the population to the same degree as, for example, the U.S. and its allies have in Afghanistan.

The really funny thing is that even if the UN had an army of 300k soldiers and wanted to wage war on the U.S. it's not like they could do anything with them unless they've also invented mass scale teleportation technology seeing as the U.S possesses most of the air and sea lift capacity the UN has access to. That in-turn rules out pretty much any invasion of CONUS barring a land one, and good luck massing an army in Canada, or Central/South America without being noticed.

[Borgholio]

Also don't forget our own allies. Granted, the US is pretty well disliked around the world at the moment, but we are basically the 800lb gorilla that is backing up the military force of many nations. I can think of several nations who would desire to come to our aid due to, at the very least, self-interest.

[PeZook]

Yeah but the idea is that:

1) ALL foreigners are you enemy, and

2) The federal government is fully cooperating with the eeeebil UN against the American people, and the federal military and law enforcement will actually be turned on the people and only supported by the genocidal blue helmets.

[Joe Momma]

Over 300 school systems will be issued a 3 day emergency kit for each student in September.

And this is a problem because....?

Hell, if they're issuing the kits based on number of students September would be the ideal time for it because that's the earliest month you'd have an accurate head-count (for that matter, having students at all), seeing as most American K-12 schools don't start until the beginning of that month.

But, yes, the guv'mint waiting until the schools are actually open to give things to their students is obviously an evil plot.

[PeZook]

I really have to wonder under what circumstances it would be evil to give emergency supplies to people and institutions

[LaCroix]

I really have to wonder under what circumstances it would be evil to give emergency supplies to people and institutions

Becasue they are only stockpiled for the invaders! These people know that they will find all supplies they need in every school all across the country!

[Thanas]

No no, there are secret drugs in the MREs which will turn you into a braindead Zombie and/or a GUB'MINT SLAVE. It is all a devious plot to get you to take those drugs now that the plan of adding things to the water supply has failed.

[Wing Commander MAD]

I really have to wonder under what circumstances it would be evil to give emergency supplies to people and institutions

Because then they might not learn their lesson about why rugged individualism is good. You're essentially rewarding them for failing, instead of letting them suffer or die like you're supposed to. The government stockpiling emergency supplies for public use! What is this Soviet Russia?

[Eternal_Freedom]

I really have to wonder under what circumstances it would be evil to give emergency supplies to people and institutions

It's an evil trap, obviously. Stockpile supplies, then stage a crisis, drawing lots of civilians to those stockpiles that can then be controlled/destroyed much more easily than when they are spread out everywhere. It's obvious.

That article sounds like someone played Modern Warfare 2 or Homefront and thought it was plausible.

[Zaune]

Or they read Atlas Shrugged when they were too young to develop any critical thinking or literary analysis skills.