____ wrote on Mar 15
th, 2016 at 8:18am:
Martial law first.
Gun toting loonies will not be tolerated.
You land will be acquired.
So you expect, as you do of a police force as current, an omnipresent military presence that will protect all? A Digger on every corner? They may be able to largely protect the major population centres, but they do not have the manpower to handle the whole thing.... and the countryside will be beset by marauding bands of
Saxons armed gangs of all kinds, initially of the current major criminal sets in our society (The Usual Suspects) who happen to control all the illegal firearms etc (thanks to Wee Johnnie The Last), who will take what they want and kill those who resist, keeping the attractive women who will remain under sway until no longer required, then be cast out into the Winter winds, heavy with child and with no home or hope.
Christ, Lad - even the rather dark 'Hunger Games' was relatively civilised and missed the point.. amazingly offering us the scenario that an effete, wimpy, milque-toast central government could control the Outlanders by fear, and there were no marauding armed bands etc that preyed on both, even though the 'districts' had virtually no police or military of the central government. Purest fiction.