Spooky

[Tim F]

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Under the plans, troops would funnel Fallujans to so-called citizen processing centers on the outskirts of the city to compile a database of their identities through DNA testing and retina scans. Residents would receive badges displaying their home addresses that they must wear at all times. Buses would ferry them into the city, where cars, the deadliest tool of suicide bombers, would be banned.

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One idea that has stirred debate among Marine officers would require all men to work, for pay, in military-style battalions. Depending on their skills, they would be assigned jobs in construction, waterworks, or rubble-clearing platoons.

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[Steve]

Yeesh.

 

[oldagerocker]

No, that won't happen, although it might create law and order or a sort... it just isn't acceptable now.

 

[Tim F]

Of course it won't happen. This is called a 'trial balloon.' The leaders leak some plan that they're worried might no go over too well with the public. If they catch too much flak, the plan evaporates. It works like a focus group in which we're all the group.

From the perspective of knowing that, yes, this almost certainly won't happen, it's funny in a dark sort of way that they've turned to dystopic computer games for inspiration.