From: Billy Brown (bbrown@conemsco.com)
Date: Wed Feb 10 1999 - 13:44:32 MST
Randall Randall wrote:
> It's been rumored that on Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
> >Why would the military go along with it?
>
> Because they're told it's their duty, and the first coupla
> people to refuse get court-martialed?
Actually, our military code of justice would *require* them to refuse to
obey such an order. You could plausibly face a court martial for complying
with it. The idea is that a soldier takes his oath to the Constitution, and
this oath takes precedence over the orders of his superior officers.
The only way you can get a scheme like this through the system is to have
such a desperate situation (mass chaos, the imminent collapse of
civilization) that the officers conducting the trial believe the measures
are necessary for their own survival. Then they might turn a blind eye -
but how could such a crisis possibly occur? You need something much worse
than a few power outages to get that kind of panic.
Billy Brown, MCSE+I
bbrown@conemsco.com
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